title: "Temperance tales". Antiliquor fiction and American attitudes toward alcoholics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
abstract: Much of the American temperance fiction and graphics (the "Temperance Tales") of the mid-1800s to the early 1900s demonstrated a relatively sophisticated understanding of the progressive nature of alcoholism. In explaining the alcoholic process to the public, this fiction contributed to the general belief that the typical alcoholic was a Skid Row-like derelict.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000266:history*; D001154:Art / Q000266:history; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013239:Stereotyped Behavior; D013695:Temperance / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States