LEADER 04485nam 22007452 450 001 9910783025203321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-11305-9 010 $a1-280-15310-5 010 $a0-511-11636-5 010 $a0-511-05342-8 010 $a0-511-15352-X 010 $a0-511-30348-3 010 $a0-511-48550-6 010 $a0-511-01763-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000005694 035 $a(EBL)201836 035 $a(OCoLC)630527692 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214432 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185144 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214432 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10158246 035 $a(PQKB)10836306 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511485503 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL201836 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014903 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL15310 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC201836 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000005694 100 $a20090226d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aOliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation /$fPeter Gibian$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 398 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v127 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-10612-5 311 $a0-521-56026-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOpening the Conversation -- The Conversation of a culture: strange powers of speech -- Holmes in the conversation of his culture -- "To change the order of conversation": interruption and vocal diversity in Holmes' American talk -- "Collisions of Discourse" I: The Electrodynamics of Conversation: A carnival of verbal fireworks -- "Collisions of Discourse" II: Electric and Ocaenic "Currents" In Conversation: The cultural work of Holmesian talk -- A Conversational Approach To Truth: the Doctor in dialogue with contemporary truth-sayers -- Conversation and "Therapeutic Nihilism": the Doctor in dialogue with contemporary medicine -- The Self In Conversation: the Doctor in dialogue with contemporary psychology -- The Two Poles 0f Conversation -- The Bipolar Dynamices of Holmes' Household Dialogues: levity and gravity -- Holmes' House Divided: house-keeping and house-breaking -- "Cutting off the Communication": fixations and falls for the walled-in-self- Holmes in dialogue with Sterne, Dickens, and Melville -- Breaking the House of Romance: Holmes in dialogue with Hawthorne -- Closing the Conversation -- Conclusion: Holmes Senior in dialogue with Holmes Junior. 330 $aPeter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America's 'Age of Conversation'. He was both a model and an analyst of the dynamic conversational form, which became central to many areas of mid-nineteenth-century life. Holmes' multivoiced writings can serve as a key to open up the closed interiors of Victorian America, whether in saloons or salons, parlours or clubs, hotels or boarding-houses, schoolrooms or doctors' offices. Combining social, intellectual, medical, legal and literary history with close textual analysis, and setting Holmes in dialogue with Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Fuller, Alcott and finally with his son, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior, Gibian radically redefines the context for our understanding of the major literary works of the American Renaissance. 410 0$aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v127. 517 3 $aOliver Wendell Holmes & the Culture of Conversation 606 $aLiterature and society$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aConversation$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aTable-talk$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aConversation in literature 606 $aDialogue in literature 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aConversation$xHistory 615 0$aTable-talk$xHistory 615 0$aConversation in literature. 615 0$aDialogue in literature. 676 $a818/.309 700 $aGibian$b Peter$f1952-$01518630 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783025203321 996 $aOliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation$93756285 997 $aUNINA