{"title":"Pam Lock","description":"\u003cp\u003ePam Lock’s works explore the intricate relationship between culture and representation, often delving into historical contexts with a critical eye. Her writing offers insightful perspectives on the arts and social issues, inviting readers to reconsider familiar narratives through a scholarly yet accessible lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngage with themes such as Victorian society and its cultural expressions, where Lock’s analyses bring depth to topics like social behaviour and literary portrayals. Her books are essential reading for those interested in the intersections of history, literature, and social commentary within arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-drunkard-in-victorian-fiction-and-culture-by-pam-lock-9781399502221","title":"The Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the fictional figure of the drunkard and why it was so important to Victorian thinking about what it meant to be human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Jos's life-changing hangover in \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e to Henchard's twenty-one-year pledge of sobriety in \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor of Casterbridge\u003c\/i\u003e, habitual drunkards were defining characters in nineteenth-century novels and short stories. These characters created chaos, joy, comedy, suffering and often their own destruction in works by authors like Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy and Anthony Trollope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFiction played a key role in Victorian political discourses about the place of alcohol in society, fuelling the battle between temperance campaigners and defenders of moderation and pleasure. It also disseminated and challenged new medical understandings of alcohol's effects on the body and mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy examining gendered and classed representations of drunkenness, \u003ci\u003eThe Drunkard in Victorian Fiction and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e documents how women and working-class drinkers were portrayed more harshly than their male and higher-class counterparts, reflecting wider religious and moral prejudices of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePam Lock demonstrates the importance of studying literary drunkards both as evidence of Victorian attitudes to alcohol and as cautionary figures that remind us of the fragility and preciousness of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934301339884,"sku":"9781399502221","price":367.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399502221-the-drunkard-in-victorian-fiction-and-culture.jpg?v=1783910672"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/pam-lock.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}