Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]
… Objects > Food & Drink Practices > Eating & Drinking Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés alcool Crime Friendship Poverty Gin, the colourless spirit flavoured with juniper, can be classed as an object. ‘The Gin Craze’, the phenomenon … foaming tankards of apparently health-giving beer. In contrast, Gin Lane , located in the slums of St. Giles, depicts poverty, squalor and human degradation. Moreover, at the heart of the image are two figures who symbolise the breakdown … Its Drinkers, 1736–1751’, Journal of British Studies (vol. 42, n° 1, 2003), p. 35–64. … Alcohol … Crime … Friendship … Poverty … Gin and the Gin Craze …
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