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"Twelve-step" recovery programs for a wide variety of addictive behaviors have become tremendously popular in the 1990s. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these movements--including Alcoholics Anonymous--lies in the Washingtonian Temperance Society, founded in Baltimore in the 1840s. In lectures, pamphlets, and books (most notably John B. Gough's Autobiography, published in 1845), recovering "drunkards" described their enslavement to and liberation from alcohol. Though widely circulated in their time, these influential temperance narratives have largely been forgotten. In Drunkard's Progress, Crowley presents a collection of revealing excerpts from these texts along with his own introductions. The tales, including "The Experience Meeting, " from T.S. Arthur's Six Nights with the Washingtonians (1842), and the autobiographical Narratives of Charles T. Woodman, A Reformed Inebriate (1843), still speak with surprising force to the miseries of drunkenness and the joys of deliverance. Contemporary readers familiar with twelve-step programs, Crowley notes, will feel a shock of recognition as they relate to the experience, strength, and hope of these old-time--but nonetheless timely--narratives of addiction, despair, and recovery. -- Back cover
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monografia Rebiun39175945 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun39175945 m o d cr cn||||||||| 020506s1999 mdua ob 000 0 eng d 98008732 533426568 651698104 961596026 962654158 970729249 1007409891 1033579125 1053022640 1135457461 1154863355 1156929292 1162377496 1241811207 0801870216 electronic bk.) 9780801870217 electronic bk.) 0801860083 alk. paper) 9780801860089 alk. paper) 0801860075 pbk. ;) alk. paper) 9780801860072 pbk. ;) alk. paper) N$T eng pn N$T OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCG OCLCQ TUU OCLCQ TNF OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCE NLGGC OCLCO OCLCQ MWM OCLCO TOA OCLCO AGLDB OCLCA OCLCQ SAV QT7 OCLCA LUE OCLCO INARC VNS OCLCO VTS OCLCO OCLCQ INT TOF OCLCQ OCLCA STF OCLCO OCLCA CHBRC UKSSU LDP OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ OCLCL OCLCA OCLCQ SEL 006000 bisacsh 362.292 21 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E3YPbc3Fd7BCgDYQ7Kqxr9Xh9g 18.06 bcl Drunkard's progress narratives of addiction, despair, and recovery edited by John W. Crowley Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press 1999 Baltimore, Md. Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) illustrations 1 online resource (xiv, 202 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) "The experience meeting," from Six nights with the Washingtonians (1842) / T.S. Arthur -- from A long voyage in a leaky ship (1842) / [James Gale] -- Confessions of a female inebriate (1842) / [Isaac F. Shepard] -- from Narrative of Charles T. Woodman, a reformed inebriate (1843) / Charles T. Woodman -- from Autobiography of a reformed drunkard (1845) / [John Cotton Mather, pseudonym] -- from An autobiography by John B. Gough (1845) / John B Gough -- from The life and experience of A.V. Green (1848) / Andrus V. Green -- from Incidents in the life of George Haydock (1847) / George Haydock "Twelve-step" recovery programs for a wide variety of addictive behaviors have become tremendously popular in the 1990s. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these movements--including Alcoholics Anonymous--lies in the Washingtonian Temperance Society, founded in Baltimore in the 1840s. In lectures, pamphlets, and books (most notably John B. Gough's Autobiography, published in 1845), recovering "drunkards" described their enslavement to and liberation from alcohol. Though widely circulated in their time, these influential temperance narratives have largely been forgotten. In Drunkard's Progress, Crowley presents a collection of revealing excerpts from these texts along with his own introductions. The tales, including "The Experience Meeting, " from T.S. Arthur's Six Nights with the Washingtonians (1842), and the autobiographical Narratives of Charles T. Woodman, A Reformed Inebriate (1843), still speak with surprising force to the miseries of drunkenness and the joys of deliverance. Contemporary readers familiar with twelve-step programs, Crowley notes, will feel a shock of recognition as they relate to the experience, strength, and hope of these old-time--but nonetheless timely--narratives of addiction, despair, and recovery. -- Back cover English Temperance Alcoholism Temperance Alcoholism Tempérance Alcoolisme alcoholism. SELF-HELP- Substance Abuse & Addictions- Alcoholism. Alcoholism. Temperance. Autobiografie. Alkoholismus. Anthologie. Alcoholisme. Drankbestrijding. Social Welfare & Social Work. Social Sciences. Substance Abuse. USA. Collected Work Bloemlezingen (vorm) Crowley, John William 1945-) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJwX8rDCwDwYGMPfGqgtKd Print version Drunkard's progress. Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999 0801860083 (DLC) 98008732