Hangover

Jonathon Shears is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University. He edited the Byron Journal from 2012 to 2019 and his book Byron’s Temperament: Essays in Body and Mind won the Elma Dangerfield award in 2016. He is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron and working on projects related to alcohol and the emotions.

• Introduction1. Isolating, Placing and Contextualising the Hangover2. 'The Nausea of Sin': The Early Modern Hangover3. 'Baneful to Public and to Private Good': Hours of Illness and Idleness in the Long Eighteenth Century4. Odes to Dejection: Romanticism and the Melancholy of Self-Knowledge5. Moral Sensitivity and the Mind: Tired and Emotional Victorians6. The Hangover and the Outsider: Self-Fashioning, Shame and Defiance in Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Fiction

'As Shears shows again and again, the hangover can serve a valuable literary function ... and his pioneering study provides us with an accessible, intriguing, sophisticated and suggestive mapping of the terrain.' Mark Hailwood, Social History of Medicine