The Pub in Literature

England's Altered State

• Author(s): Steven Earnshaw,
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Pages: 294
• ISBN_10: 0719053048
  ISBN_13: 9780719053047
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... Tracing the roles of the drinking house in literature from Chaucer's Tabard to Martin Amis' Black Cross, this study takes in Falstaff's Boars Head and the numerous inns and public houses of Dickens, along with lesser known works where the drinking place is central.