Demon Rum on the Boards
Temperance Melodrama and the Tradition of Antebellum Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11675608 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Judith N McArthur (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 517-517 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Early Republic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0275-1275 • E-ISSN: 1553-0620 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3123754 |
| OpenAlex | W2329141748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Among the plethora of crusades by which antebellum Americans attempted to reform and restructure their society, the temperance movement had perhaps the broadest appeal, one that was particularly difficult for twentieth-century historians of the post-Prohibition era to appreciate. Once dismissed as a repressive reflex of the status-anxious native-born Protestant elite, anti-liquor sentiment has more recently been examined by the new social historians from the perspectives of class and gender.' It seems clear that the flood of temperance
Art · Demon · Literature · Political science · American History and Culture · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |