Oliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation / Peter Gibian.
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 understan...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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| Summary: | 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."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 398 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511017634 9780511017636 0511116365 9780511116360 9780521560269 0521560268 9780511485503 0511485506 9780511053429 0511053428 9786610153107 6610153108 1107113059 9781107113053 1280153105 9781280153105 0511303483 9780511303487 9780521106122 0521106125 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511485503 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |