Table of Contents: The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes /

Main Author:	Weinstein, Michael A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2006.
Subjects:	Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1809-1894 > Criticism and interpretation. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > 1809-1894. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > (1809-1894) > Critique et interprétation. Didactic literature, American > History and criticism. Autonomy (Psychology) in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
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Table of Contents:

Holmes's imaginative prose: form and contents
The Autocrat as an account of existential doubt
The power of silence and the limits of discourse at the professor's breakfast table
The denial of freedom in Elsie Venner: Holmes's romance of destiny
The vindication of freedom in The guardian angel
The rise of the specialist and the eclipse of the humanist at the poet's breakfast table
Morality in the new society in A mortal antipathy
Over the teacups as an account of senescence and a last testament.