Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

Alcoholism in literature

On this page

  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Works from the collections

10 works

    • Books

    Inventing the addict : drugs, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century British and American literature / Susan Zieger.

    Zieger, Susan Marjorie. | Date: 2008
    • Books

    The trip to Echo Spring : why writers drink / by Olivia Laing.

    Laing, Olivia. | Date: 2013
    • Books

    George Eliot and intoxication : dangerous drugs for the condition of England / Kathleen McCormack.

    McCormack, Kathleen, 1944- | Date: 2000
    • Books

    High anxieties : cultural studies in addiction / Janet Farrell Brodie and Marc Redfield, editors.

    | Date: [2002], ©2002
    • Books

    L'assommoir / Émile Zola ; translated by Margaret Mauldon ; with an introduction by Robert Lethbridge.

    Zola, Émile, 1840-1902. | Date: 1998, ©1995

Related topics

History, 19th Century
Alcohol Drinking
Literature, Modern
United States

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 20:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 20:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence