The Hangover

What is a hangover? How does itfeel to suffer from one? What can hangovers tell us about the way attitudes toalcohol have developed over time? In the humanities, why have we neglected the subject of the hangover in ourcritical discussions of alcohol and intoxication? In the first comprehensive study of the hangover in literature and culture, JonathonShears sets out to answer each of these questions by exploring the representationof ‘the morning after’ in a wide variety of texts ranging from the