Peter 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.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521560269
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96764635
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Book Title
Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation
Author
Peter Gibian
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2001
Number of Pages
412 Pages
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Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
660g
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Title_Author
Peter Gibian
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture