Under the Influence: Drink, Discourse, and Narrative in Victorian Britain

Author / Editor
Alfano, Christine Lynne.

Title
Under the Influence: Drink, Discourse, and Narrative in Victorian Britain

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1995): 2244A.

Description
The popular tradition of conviviality in Merrie Olde England stretches back through Shakespeare to Chaucer.
With the rise of the temperance movement and the spread of literacy, both didactic hacks and serious novelists reversed the given view.

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion.