The Saloon and the Mission: Addiction, Conversion, and the Politics of Redemption in American Culture

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[ 311 ] Abbott, Lyman, 63 Adams, Henry C., 75 Addams, Jane, 44, 53–55, 59, 66, 75–77, 79–80, 275n29 addiction: causes and effects of, 6, 120–26, 138–43, 145–46; class’s intersections with, 52–55; communities of, 3; governmental interventions and, 85, 95–96, 144–46, 211–16; historical emergence of, 7–11; intoxication and, 6–9, 37, 86, 112, 162, 168, 184–87, 204, 216–19, 229–40; masculinity and, 102–3, 107–10; medical language and, 5–6, 8–11, 51, 73, 87–88, 90, 92–93, 115, 144–51, 155, 181, 197, 232, 248–61; recovery narratives and, 1–2, 204–11; religious responses to, 28–31; therapeutic systems and, 73, 81, 112–15, 120–26, 177–80, 200–216, 242–47. See also Alcoholics Anonymous; drunkard’s conversion (trope); religion; therapeutic culture Addiction (Moyers), 237 Ade, George, 220 Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (Hooper), 159 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 158–60, 250 affect: recovery narrative’s uses of, 5, 9–19, 55–75, 81–82, 155, 166–67, 188–90; religion and, 9–10, 159–62; William James and, 86. See also sentimentalism African Americans, 242–47 AIDS, 240–41, 306n32 Index alcohol. See addiction; Alcoholics Anonymous; drunkard’s conversion (trope); recovery narrative; rescue missions; temperance movements Alcoholics Anonymous: class’s intersections with, 25, 127–28, 130, 136–44, 150–51, 184–85, 239–47; founding of, 3, 16, 115, 120, 126–31, 270n36; homosexuality and, 240–42, 305n28; Iceman Cometh and, 208–11; individualism and, 124–25; masculinity and, 110, 115, 119–20, 129, 131, 136–38, 140–42, 189–90, 210–11, 222; mutual aid structures and, 142–44, 146– 47, 166, 170–72, 177–80, 229–39, 251–52, 268n13, 283n6; political roles of, 144–51, 224–25, 227–29, 239, 252, 257–59, 277n7; race and, 240–47; recovery narratives in, 11, 18, 116, 122–23, 148, 188, 200–204, 220, 226–29; religion in, 12, 16–17, 112– 14, 120, 127, 134–35, 149, 174–75, 195, 203, 208–10; therapeutic mission of, 73, 81, 112–14, 116–26, 181, 195, 201–4, 211, 221, 223–24, 234–37, 240–42, 248–61, 296n31; William James and, 16, 85, 87, 91, 93, 100, 113, 131–32, 237 Alcoholics Anonymous: masculinity and, 115, 230; publication of, 101–2, 127, 129–30, 202; recovery narratives in, 131–38, 140–44, 148 Alcoholism Movement, 144, 224–29, 233 Alexander, Doris, 299n26 Allen, John, 33, 35, 246 America: class issues in, 127–30, 139–44; Index [ 312 ] America (continued) drunkard’s conversion trope in, 7–11, 200–204; economic crises in, 3; individualism in, 116, 120–26, 132–33, 214–22, 289n58; interwar period of, 119, 129, 136, 180–81; national recovery narratives and, 117–26, 144–51, 211–22, 254–61, 284n7; religion and, 4–5, 28–31, 155, 159–62, 216–22, 278n24; urbanization of, 32–37, 52–55, 182–90. See also Alcoholics Anonymous; liberalism; modernism (literary); New Deal; religion The American Magazine, 70 American Psychiatric Association, 259 Andersen, Kurt, 257 Anderson, Sherwood, 222 Angelou, Maya, 235 Angels with Dirty Faces (film), 144 anonymity, 148–51. See also Alcoholics Anonymous “Anthem” (Cohen), 222, 245 Appeal to Reason, 167 Arnold, June, 240 Arnold, Thurman, 123 Arthur, T. S., 202, 218 Artie (Ade), 220 As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 235 Asylum (Seabrook), 229 Autobiography (Franklin), 8 Awake and Sing! (Odets), 139 “The Backslider” (Alcoholics Anonymous), 141 Baker, Ray Stannard, 23, 32, 49, 53–55, 70, 72–74, 273n22 Baraka, Amiri, 191 Barnes, Djuna, 17–18, 177, 179, 191–99, 232, 239–40, 295n30, 296n32 Barnett, Thomas, 257 Beats. See Kerouac, Jack Beck, Glenn, 257 Beckett, Samuel, 217, 220 Becoming William James (Feinstein), 88 Beecher, Lyman, 112 Beer-Wine Revenue Act, 213, 215 Begbie, Harold: Alcoholics Anonymous and, 109–10, 113–14; gender and, 198; Jack London and, 103–4; religious outlook of, 16, 96–102; Upton Sinclair and, 165, 170, 175; William James and, 83, 85–88 Bellamy, Edward, 66 Beneath the American Renaissance (Reynolds), 173 The Bible and Temperance (Currier), 42 Big Book. See Alcoholics Anonymous Bill W. and Mr. Wilson (Raphael), 127–28 Binchy, Maeve, 235 “Black Cats and Delirium Tremens” (Reynolds), 173 Bloom, Harold, 217 The Blue Badge of Courage (H. Hadley), 38–39 Borst, Allan, 235–36 Brave New World (Huxley), 150 Brereton, Virginia, 26 Breu, Christopher, 131, 133–34 Bright Lights, Big City (McInerney), 186 “The Broad Accomplishments of the New Deal” (Schlesinger), 123 Broadway...