Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)

by Peter Gibian

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Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes, senior, in what was known as America's Age of Conversation. Holmes' multivoiced writings can serve as a key to open up the closed interiors of Victorian America, whether in saloons or salons, parlors or clubs, hotels or boarding houses. Combining social, intellectual, medical, legal and literary history with close textual analysis, and setting Holmes in dialoge with Emerson, Hawthorne,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521106125

ISBN13:9780521106122

Release Date:April 2009

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:412 Pages

Weight:1.33 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

American Literature Classics Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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