The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes

The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes / Michael A. Weinstein.

"Explication of Holmes's didactic works, including A Mortal Antipathy and Over the Teacups, which substantiates Holmes as a serious writer of the New England Renaissance whose ideology of self-determination as an American value is as relevant to modern society as it was to the agrarian and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weinstein, Michael A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Subjects:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1809-1894 > Criticism and interpretation.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1809-1894
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > (1809-1894) > Critique et interprétation.
Didactic literature, American > History and criticism.
Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Autonomy (Psychology) in literature
Didactic literature, American
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Holmes's imaginative prose: form and contents
  • The Autocrat as an account of existential doubt
  • The power of silence and the limits of discourse at the professor's breakfast table
  • The denial of freedom in Elsie Venner: Holmes's romance of destiny
  • The vindication of freedom in The guardian angel
  • The rise of the specialist and the eclipse of the humanist at the poet's breakfast table
  • Morality in the new society in A mortal antipathy
  • Over the teacups as an account of senescence and a last testament.

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