Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Weinstein, Michael A.

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

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Subject

• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 > Criticism and interpretation
• Didactic literature, American > History and criticism
• Autonomy (Psychology) in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 06-11100

ISBN

0826216447 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005036361
• 9780826216441

OCLC

62679860

Author

Weinstein, Michael A.

Title

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

Imprint

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Description

ix, 203 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 industrial societies he addressed"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.

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Table of contents only

Other Standard Identifier

9780826216441

Research Call Number

JFE 06-11100

JFE 06-3826