Selected Bibliography on Temperance and Nineteenth-Century United States Culture Alexander, Ruth M. "'We Are Engaged as a Band of Sisters': Class and Domesticity in the Washingtonian Temperance Movement, 1840-1850." Journal of American History, 75 (1988): 763-85. Baron, Stanley. Brewed in America: A History of Beer and Ale in the United States. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1962. Bennett, Linda A., and Genevieve M. Ames, eds. The American Experience with Alcohol: Contrasting Cultural Perspectives. New York: Plenum P, 1985. Blocker, Jack S., Jr. American Temperance Movements. Boston: Twayne, 1989. Blumberg, Leonard U. "The Significance of the Alcohol Prohibitionists for the Washingtonian Temperance Societies." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 41 (1980): 37-77. Bordin, Ruth. Women and Temperance: The Quest for Power and Liberty. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1981. Crowley, John W., ed. Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999. Dannenbaum, Jed. Drink and Disorder: Temperance Reform in Cincinnati from the Washingtonian Revival to the WCTU. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1984. Epstein, Barbara Leslie. The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelicism, and Temperance in Nineteenth-Century America. Middleton, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 1981. Frick, John R. "'To Drink from the Poisoned Cup': Theatre, Culture, and Temperance in Antebellum America." Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 4 (1992): 21-41. Gusfield, Joseph R. Symbolic Crusade: Status Politics and the American Temperance Movement. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1963. Hampel, Robert. Temperance and Prohibition in Massachusetts, 1813-1852. Ann Arbor: UMI Research P, 1982. Hendler, Glenn. "Bloated Bodies and Sober Sentiments: Masculinity in 1840s Temperance Narratives." Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Eds. Chapman, Mary, and Glenn Hendler. Berkeley: U of California P, 1999. 125-148. Lender, Mark Edward, and James Kirby Martin. Drinking in America: A History. New York: Free Press, 1987. Levine, Harry Gene, "The Discovery of Addiction: Changing Conceptions of Habitual Drunkenness in America." Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 39 (1978): 143-75. Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1997, chap. 3. Reynolds, David S. Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville. New York: Knopf, 1988. Reynolds, David S., and Debra J. Rosenthal, eds. The Serpent in the Cup: Temperance in American Literature. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1997. Rohrer, James R. "The Origins of the Temperance Movement: A Reinterpretation." Journal of American Studies, 24 (1990): 228-235. Rorabaugh, W. J. The Alcoholic Republic: An American Tradition. New York: Oxford UP, 1979. Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. "Temperance in the Bed of a Child: Incest and Social Order in Nineteenth-Century America." American Quarterly, 47 (1995): 1-33. Tyrell, Ian R. Sobering Up: From Temperance to Prohibition in Antebellum America, 1800-1860. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood P, 1979. Walters, Ronald G. American Reformers: 1815-1860. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978. Warner, Nicholas O. Spirits of America: Forms of Intoxication in Antebellum American Literature. Norman: U of Oklahoma P, 1997. go to Bibliography on Whitman and Temperance return to Bibliography main page home | introduction | temperance in whitman's texts | temperance in 19th-century texts | image gallery | critical voices | teaching approaches | bibliography | acknowledgements |