Mother Gin and the Bad Examples: Figuring a Drug Crisis, 1736-51.
The most memorable figure of the London "Gin Craze," a furor over cheap spirits from approximately 1720 to 1751, is the woman in the foreground of William Hogarth's Gin Lane (1751), so deep in stupor that she fails to notice her tumbling child. Hogarth draws on a longer tradition throughout the Gin...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 369 - 393 |
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University of Toronto Press
Spring2021
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