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Autore: | Weinstein Michael A |
Titolo: | The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes / / Michael A. Weinstein |
Pubblicazione: | Columbia, : University of Missouri Press, c2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina: | 818/.309 |
Soggetto topico: | Didactic literature, American - History and criticism |
Autonomy (Psychology) in literature | |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes |
ISBN: | 0-8262-6540-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808304803321 |
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