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Dionysos: the literature and intoxication triquarterly
This site makes accessible all issues of Dionysos: The Literature and Intoxication Triquarterly. Individual issues are downloadable as searchable pdfs. File sizes are 1-2MB.
We would very much like to thank: Roger Forseth and Jim Harbaugh for kindly granting permission to make these issues publicly available. (And we would like to point out that a collection of Roger's essays is now available: Alcoholite at the Altar: The Writer and Addiction link) Shana Aue at the University of Wisconsin-Superior Library for providing earlier versions of pdfs for Issues 1-5, and to Laura Jacobs for helping facilitate this in the first place. Please send queries to: Pam Lock - Pam.Lock@bristol.ac.uk Steven Earnshaw - s.l.earnshaw@shu.ac.uk

	Volume 1 No. 1 (Spring 1989)	Download
Editorial		2
Nicholas O. Warner	The Drunken Wife in Defoe's Colonel Jack: An Early Description of Alcohol Addiction	3
George F. Wedge	Mixing Memory with Desire: The Family of the Alcoholic in Three Mid-Century Plays	10
John W. Crowley	A review of Scott Donaldson's John Cheever: A Biography	19
Roger Forseth	'I Wouldn't Have Korsakov's Syndrome, Would I?' A review of Barnaby Conrad's Time Is All We Have: Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center	22
Constance M. Perry	Alcoholics as American Celebrities. A Review of Donald Goodwin's Alcohol and the Writer	25
	Brief reviews	28
	Notes and comments	30
	About the contributors	32

	Volume 1 No. 2 (Fall 1989)	Download
Editorial		2
Roger Forseth	Denial as Tragedy: The Dynamics of Addiction in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey into Night	3
Thomas B. Gilmore	The Critic Criticized: Herbert Fingarette's Heavy Drinking: The Myth of Alcoholism as a Disease (review article)	19
Hamilton Cochrane	Making Use: The Last Poems of Raymond Carver. A review of Raymond Carver's A New Path to the Waterfall	31
E. Nelson Hayes	Hallucinations. A review of Ronald K. Siegel's Intoxiccation: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise	35
Constance M. Perry	The Great American "Rummies": Our Century's Writers and Alcoholism. A review of Tom Dardis's The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer	37
	Brief reviews	41
	Bibliographical Notes	44
	Notes and comment	46
	About the contributors to Dionysos	48

	Volume 1 No. 3 (Winter 1990)	Download
Editorial		2
Anya Taylor	A Thrice-Told Tale: Fiction and Alcoholism in Richard Yates's Disturbing the Peace	3
Timothy M. Rivinus and Brian W. Ford	Children of Alcoholics in Literature: Portraits of the Struggle (Part One)	13
Hayden Carruth	The Incorrigible Dirigible	24
Jet Wimp	A review of Judith McDaniels' Metamorphosis	27
Donald C. Irving	A Taboo Lifted. A review of Thomas B. Gilmore's Equivocal Spirits	31
Thomas B. Gilmore	A review of Adult Children of Alcoholics Remember, E. Nelson Hayes, editor	35
John J. Halligan	A review of The Invisible Enemy, Miriam Dow and Jennifer Regan, editors	39
	Brief Reviews	47
	Notes and Comment	49
	About the contributors to Dionysos	51

	Volume 2 No. 1 (Spring 1990)	Download
Editorial		2
Paul H. Schmidt	Alcohol, Literature, and Social Patterns (Review Article)	3
Timothy M. Rivinus and Brian W. Ford	Children of Alcoholics in Literature: Portraits of the Struggle (Part Two)	10
Jennifer Manning	Torn Between Knowledge and Desire: Alcoholism in John Berryman's "Dream Song #96"	27
Amy L. Mashberg	Co-Dependence and Obsession in Madame Bovary	28
William P. Wyatt, Jr	The Living Room (Poem)	41
	Brief Reviews	42
	Notes and Comment	45
	About the contributors to Dionysos	47

	Volume 2 No. 2 (Fall 1990)	Download
Editorial		2
Marty Roth	"The Milk of Wonder": Fitzgerald, Alcoholism, and The Great Gatsby	3
Annette Federico	"I must have drink": Addiction, Angst, and Victorian Realism	11
Denise Low	A Healing Rain in James Welch's Winter in the Blood	26
Nicholas O. Warner	A film review of The Roaring Twenties (1939, Warner Brothers)	33
	Brief Reviews	38
	Notes and Comment	41
	About the contributors to Dionysos	44

	Volume 2 No. 3 (Winter 1991)	Download
Editorial		2
Jack Williams	"Marla" Fiction	3
G. Alan Marlatt and Roger Forseth	Theatrical Defenses: A Conversation	19
Steven Bloom	Alcoholism and Intoxication in A Touch of the Post	31
Virginia Ross	Descent Into Despair. A review of William Styron's Darkness Visible(1939, Warner Brothers)	40
	Brief Review	44
	Notes and Comment	46
	About the contributors to Dionysos	48

	Volume 3 No. 1 (Spring 1991) Special Review Issue	Download
Editorial		2
John W. Crowley	Drunk Descending a Staircase: John Barleycorn	3
Roger Forseth	"Why did they make such a fuss?": Don Birnam's Emotional Barometer	11
Dan Wakefield	Benchley's Sobering Revelations	17
Thomas B. Gilmore	A Happy Hybrid	19
George Wedge	An Unlicensed PI in AA: The Matt Scudder Novels	24
Donald. C. Irving	Secrets of the Streets	32
	Brief Reviews	36
Sue Vice	Literature and Addiction: An Interdisciplinary Conference	40
	Notes and Comment	45
	About the contributors to Dionysos	47
	Contents of the Past Issues	48

	Volume 3 No. 2 (Fall 1991)	Download
Editorial		2
Catherine MacGregor	"Especially Pictures of Families": Alcoholism, Codependency, and Crime and Punishment	3
Hamilton Cochrane	Happy New Year (Fiction)	21
Judson Jerome	"Alcoholic" (Poem)	26
Nicholas O. Warner	Drink, Symbolism, and Social History. A review of Drinking: Behavior and Belief in Modern History, Susanna Barrows and Robin Room, editors	27
Virginia Ross	The Posthumous Confession of Anne Sexton. A review of Diane Wood Middlebrook's Anne Sexton: A Biography	31
Donald. C. Irving	A review of jeffrey Meyers' Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle	36
	Notes and Comment	42
	About the contributors to Dionysos	44

	Volume 3 No. 3 (Winter 1992)	Download
Editorial		2
Marty Roth	The Unquenchable Thirst of Edgar Allan Poe	3
George Wedge	I Could Draw You a Picture (Fiction)	17
Christine Ramsay	Apocalyptic Visions, Alcoholic Hallucinations, and Modernism: The (Gendered) Signs of Drinking and Death in Under the Volcano	21
John W. Crowley	Jays and Jags: Gender, Class, and Addiction in Howells' Landlord at Lion's Head	36
	Notes and Comment	42
	About the contributors to Dionysos	44

	Volume 4 No. 1 (Spring 1992)	Download
Editorial		2
John Maxwell O'Brien	Dionysus	3
John Peck	Thackeray and Drink: Vanity Fair and The Newcomes	14
Thomas B. Gilmore	Missed Opportunities (Review Article)	19
Frank Morral	D. H. Lawrence's Alcoholic Family (Review Article)	27
Mark Rodell	Both Sides of the Tracks. A review of Linda Niemann's Boomer	36
Nicholas O. Warner	A review of Norman K. Denzin's Hollywood Shot by Shot: Alcoholism in American Cinema	39
Amy Mashberg	Family Regulator -- Family Symptom. A review of Paula Marantz Cohen's The Daughter's Dilemma: Family Process and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel	41
	Correspondence	46
	Notes and Comment	49
	About the contributors to Dionysos	50
	Contents of the Past Issues	51

	Volume 4 No. 2 (Fall 1992)	Download
Editorial		2
Constance M. Perry	A Woman Writing Under the Influence: Djuna Barnes and Nightwood	3
Timothy M. Rivinus	Euphoria and Despair: Youthful Addiction in This Side of Paradise and Novel with Cocaine	15
Jack Williams	Uncle Carl, Not Clogging (Poem)	29
Catherine MacGregor	"I Cannot Trust Your Oaths and Promises: I Must Have a Written Agreement": Talk and Text in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall	31
Roger Forseth	Symposia as Ritual and Disease (Review Article)	40
	Brief Reviews	45
	Notes and Comment	47
	About the contributors to Dionysos	48

	Volume 4 No. 3 (Winter 1993) Special Issue: The Beat Generation 1: The European Perspective Issue Editor: Sue Vice	Download
Introductory Note		2
Sue Wiseman	The Artist and the Boy Gang: Beat Boys and Girls	3
Steven Whitaker	Burroughs and De Quincey: Two Tasters of "The Divine Luxuries"	9
James Oliver	Deterritorialized Desiring-Production and Deferral ofthe Voice: The Addictive Dynamic of Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Poetry	12
Steven Perrin	Hero and Heroin: Opiate Use and Sexual Identity	25
Tom Roder	William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg: Making it More "Real," "Reality Effects," Doubts, and Postmodernist Concerns	30
Sue Vice	Hallucinatory Reality in David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch	43
	About the contributors to Dionysos	48

	Volume 5 No. 1 (Spring 1993)	Download
Editorial		2
Donald W. Goodwin	Alcohol as Muse	3
Jack Williams	Marla II (Fiction)	15
George Wedge	Matt Scudder: fighting the Good Fight Against Crime and Booze (Review Article)	29
Virginia Ross	Jean Stafford's Beleaguered Fortress: A Review of Ann Hulbert's The Interior Castle: The Art and Life of Jean Stafford	33
Jack Herzig	The Samurai (Poem)	38
Marty Roth	Theory Skirmishes. A review of Avital Ronell's Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania and Anya Taylor's "Coleridge and Alcohol"	39
Donald C. Irving	Middle-Aged Spiritual Disease. A review of David Gates's Jernigan	41
Constance M. Perry	Literature Looks at the Politics of Food and Drink. A review of the Summer/Fall 1991 issue of Mosaic	44
	Notes and Comment	47
	About the contributors to Dionysos	49
	Contents of the Past Issues (Vols. I-IV)	50

	Volume 5 No. 2 (Fall 1993)	Download
Editorial		2
John W. Crowley	Recovering the Author of The Lost Weekend: Notes on charles Jackson	3
Robin N. Crouch	Samuel Johnson on Drinking	19
Ellen Lansky	Two Unfinished Beers: A Note on Drinking in Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants"	28
Peter Donahue	The Pearl of Puget Sound (Story)	31
Marty and Martha Roth	Short Cuts. A film review.	45
Constance M. Perry	My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan. Review	48
	Notes and Comment	51
	About the contributors to Dionysos	49

	Volume 5 No. 3 (Winter 1994)	Download
Editorial		2
	Symposium	3
Roger Forseth	Alcohol, Disease, and the Limitations of Artistic Representation	16
David Isaacson	Making Sense Out of Soused Synonyms	28
Ellen Lansky	Spirits and Salvation in Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine	39
Marty Roth	Addiction with a Difference. A review of differences, "On Addiction"	45
	Notes and Comment	49
	About the contributors to Dionysos	51

	Volume 6 No. 1 (Winter 1996)	Download
Editorial		4
Cassie Carter	The Sickness That Takes Years to Perfect: Jim Carroll's Alchemical Vision	6
Mark Scott	Original Poetry	20
Roger Forseth	Review Article: The Alcoholic Writer and the Modern Temper: Transcendence Downward	22
David Roskos	Original Poetry	33
Rosemary E. Johnsen	Book Review Beyond the Pleasure Dome: Writing and Addiction from the Romantics	35
Jim Harbaugh, S J	Book Review Expect a Miracle: The Miraculous Things That Happen to Ordinary People	39
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	41
	About the contributors to Dionysos	43

	Volume 6 No. 2 (Summer 1996)	Download
Andrew S. McClure	Word, Image, and Addiction: Language and the Junk Equation in William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch	6
Patrick E. Collins	Original Poetry	20
Jim Harbaugh, S J	Review of Creating from the Spirit by Dan Wakefield	21
Joe B. Fulton	Carnival in Barbara Pym's Excellent Women	25
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	38
	About the contributors	41

	Volume 7 No. 1 (Winter 1997)	Download
	Letters to the Editor	4
Mary Corey	Irresolute Spirits	6
Sam Friedman	Original Poetry	18
Marty Roth	Something Wild: The Fruits of Filmic Intoxication	23
Jack Williams	Original Poetry	34
George Carmen	Original Poetry	35
Roger Forseth	Book Review of Norman Kiell, Food and Drink in Literature: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography	36
John W. Crowley	Book Review of John Steadman Rice, A Disease of One's Own: Psychotherapy, Addiction, and the Emergence of Co-Dependency	39
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	44
	About the contributors	46

	Volume 7 No. 2 (Summer 1997)	Download
Ellen Lansky	Beloved Enemies: Two Serious Ladies. The Sheltering Sky. Jane and Paul Bowles, and Alcohol	4
Michael L. Johnson	Drinks	13
George Wedge	Literature and Addiction Across Eras and Cultures	23
John Crowley	A Bleak Vindictive Wind: The Drunkenness of James Whitcomb Riley	35
Eric Zuckerman	Original Poetry	40
Jim Harbaugh, SJ	Book Review of Last Call: Poems on Alcoholism, Addiction, and Deliverance	41
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	44
David Roskos	Original Poetry	47, 48
	About the contributors	49

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	Volume 8 No. 1 (Winter 1998)	Download
Kevin McCarron	The Disenchanted Circle: Slave Narratives and Junk Narratives	5
John W. Crowley	William Inge's Lost Script for Television: Max and the National Council on Alcoholism	15
George Wedge	Alcoholism as Symptom: The Life and Works of Jean Rhys	23
Jerome Bump	Book Review of John V. Knapp: Striking at the Joints: Contemporary Psychology and Literary Criticism	34
Roger Forseth	Book Review of Timothy E. Donohue: In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic	40
Marty Roth	Alcohol and the American Renaissance. Book Review of Nicholas O. Warner: Spirits of America: Intoxication in Nineteenth-century American Literature	44
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	48
	About the contributors	51

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	Volume 8 No. 2 (Summer 1998)	Download
Kathryne S. McDorman	Addiction and Respectability in the Novels of Ngaio Marsh	5
Ivan Gold	The Mask of Amontillado	26
Jon Miller	"Heavens Good Cheer": Puritan Drinking in the Meditations of Edward Taylor, 1682-1725	30
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	45
	About the contributors	48

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	Volume 9 No. 1 (Winter 1999)	Download
George Monteiro	Bowery Plot, Social Paradigm in Stephen Crane's George's Mother	5
Matt Djos	John Berryman's "Phase Four" and His Precarious Attempt to Find a Compromise Between Drunkenness, Sobriety, and the A. A. Twelve Step Program	17
George Wedge	The Inner Temple (poem)	28
Kevin McCarron	Spiritus contra spiritum The Recovery Narrative and "Spirituality"	33
	Index of Past Issues, by contents and authors	42
	About the contributors	53

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	Volume 9 No. 2 (Summer 1999)	Download
Roger Forseth	George Francis Wedge III 1927-1999	5
George Wedge	If "May Day" Isnt About Alcohol, Why Is Nearly Everybody Drunk?	7
Todd Richardson	Leading E. A. Poe through a Standard Test for Alcoholism	13
Sam Friedman	De la convencion a nuestras casas	27
Roger Forseth	Addiction Studies: A Review of the Literature	29
Erik R. Mortenson	Xmas Junkies: Debasement and Redemption in the Work of William S. Burroughs and David Foster Wallace	37
Marty Roth	Bacchus and Old King Alcohol: A Review of Anya Taylor, Bacchus and Romantic England: Writers ad Drink, 1780-1830 and John W. Crowley Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair and Recovery	47
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	51
	About the Contributors	55

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	Volume 10 No. 1 (Winter 2000)	Download
James Nicholls	Barflies and Bohemians: Drink, Paris and Modernity	5
David Roskos	After Ginsberg	23
Matts Djos	The Alcoholic Dilemmas of Marriage, Impotence, and Objectification in the Poetry of John Berryman and Robert Lowell	24
David Roskos	Tumbling the Void: William Wantling and the Algebra of Need	33
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	45
	About the Contributors	48

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	Volume 10 No. 2 (Summer 2000)	Download
Kevin McCarron	"For to Beg for the Price of a Jar": Begging and Alcoholism in the Contemporary British Temperance Narrative	5
David Leigh, S J	Addiction and Modern Spiritual Autobiography	20
Marty Roth	Alcoholism and the Novel	34
Jim Harbaugh	Review of A Babel of Bottles: Drink, Drinkers & Drinking Places in Literature	38
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	42
	About the Contributors	46

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	Volume 11 No. 1 (Spring 2001)	Download
Matts Djos	Addiction and Spirituality in Contemporary American Poetry: A Study in Frustration and Paradox	5
George Wedge	Neo-Prohibitionism and the Drinking Writer	18
David Roskos	Untitled Poem. On the Road to the Contagious Crack House	29
Jim Harbaugh	Review of Bill W. and Mr. Wilson	32
Jim Harbaugh	Literature (and Other Arts): What We Talk about When We Talk about Spirituality and Recovery	35
Roger Forseth	Notes and Comment	47
	About the Contributors	51