LEADER 02754nam 2200541 a 450 001 9910808304803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8262-6540-5 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467117 035 $a(OCoLC)191953330 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10155097 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176596 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176596 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205442 035 $a(PQKB)10969748 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3570893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3570893 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10155097 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467117 100 $a20051213d2006 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes /$fMichael A. Weinstein 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aColumbia $cUniversity of Missouri Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (216 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8262-1644-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $a"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. 606 $aDidactic literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAutonomy (Psychology) in literature 615 0$aDidactic literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAutonomy (Psychology) in literature. 676 $a818/.309 700 $aWeinstein$b Michael A$042503 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808304803321 996 $aThe imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes$93936222 997 $aUNINA