Fortified Fiction: Writers and Drink

Abstract

Part of what is usually labelled as drink/ing studies comprises literature and the way drink is rendered in literary works. In many cases such works are written by writers who themselves are drink-dependent. This article focuses on such fiction an such writers, acknowledging American literature, extensively discussed in various studies, and bringing to the fore some British novelists who largely remain at the margin of critical interest in this respect.

Keywords

• alcohol
• literature
• fiction
• writers
• addiction