Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Weinstein, Michael A.

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

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

Ch. 1. Holmes's imaginative prose : form and contents -- Ch. 2. The autocrat as an account of existential doubt -- Ch. 3. The power of silence and the limits of discourse at the professor's breakfast table -- Ch. 4. The denial of freedom in Elsie Venner : Holmes's romance of destiny -- Ch. 5. The vindication of freedom in The guardian angel -- Ch. 6. The rise of the specialist and the eclipse of the humanist at the poet's breakfast table -- Ch. 7. Morality in the new society in A moral antipathy -- Ch. 8. Over the teacups as an account of senescence and a last testament.

ISBN

0826216447 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005036361
• 9780826216441

OCLC

• OCM62679860
• SCSB-5243061

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries