Rebekah Hyneman’s Leaves of the Upas Tree: A Tale of (In)temperance and (Im)morality

The intent of this paper is to examine the use, by nineteenth-century American authors, of the temperance novel, a popular literary sub-genre in antebellum America, as a literary means for presenting the widespread controversy in the nation as regards the achievements of temperance societies. Moreov...

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Main Author: Rabinovich Irina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Charles University 2020-07-01
Series:Prague Journal of English Studies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/pjes-2020-0003