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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Michael A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Didactic literature, American--History and criticism.

Didactic literature, American.

Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894--Criticism and interpretation.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Intro

The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Holmes 's Imaginative Prose Form and Contents

Chapter 2 The Autocrat as an Account of Existential Doubt

Chapter 3 The Power of Silence and the Limits of Discourse at the Professor 's Breakfast Table

Chapter 4 The Denial of Freedom in Elsie Venner Holmes 's Romance of Destiny

Chapter 5 The Vindication of Freedom in The Guardian Angel

Chapter 6 The Rise of the Specialist and the Eclipse of the Humanist at the Poet 's Breakfast Table

Chapter 7 Morality in the New Society in A Mortal Antipathy

Chapter 8 Over the Teacups as an Account of Senescence and a Last Testament

Annotated Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-8262-6540-5

OCLC:

191953330