Bibframe Work

Introduction : alcohol, literature, and nation-building

Part 1. Imagining the nation through alcohol, class, and gender. 1 Everything in its right place? Social drinking spaces, popular culture, and nationhood ; 2. Patriotic heroes and consummate drunks : alcohol, masculinity, and nationhood

Part 2. Alcohol, morality, and medicine in the story of national development. 3. Yankees, toffs, and Miss Quixote : drunken bodies, citizenship, and the hope of moral reform ; 4. Medicine, madness, and modernity in porfirian Mexico : alcoholism as the national disease

Conclusion : drunkenness, death, and Mexican melancholia.