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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Oliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation // Peter Gibian.
remainder title:	Oliver Wendell Holmes & the Culture of Conversation
Author:	Gibian, Peter,
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 398 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Literature and society - History - 19th century. - United States -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511485503
ISBN:	9780511485503 (ebook)

Oliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation /
Gibian, Peter,1952-

Oliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation /Oliver Wendell Holmes & the Culture of ConversationPeter Gibian. - 1 online resource (xi, 398 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;127. - Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;165..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Opening the Conversation -- The Conversation of a culture: strange powers of speech -- Holmes in the conversation of his culture -- "To change the order of conversation": interruption and vocal diversity in Holmes' American talk -- "Collisions of Discourse" I: The Electrodynamics of Conversation: A carnival of verbal fireworks -- "Collisions of Discourse" II: Electric and Ocaenic "Currents" In Conversation: The cultural work of Holmesian talk -- A Conversational Approach To Truth: the Doctor in dialogue with contemporary truth-sayers -- Conversation and "Therapeutic Nihilism": the Doctor in dialogue with contemporary medicine -- The Self In Conversation: the Doctor in dialogue with contemporary psychology -- The Two Poles 0f Conversation -- The Bipolar Dynamices of Holmes' Household Dialogues: levity and gravity -- Holmes' House Divided: house-keeping and house-breaking -- "Cutting off the Communication": fixations and falls for the walled-in-self- Holmes in dialogue with Sterne, Dickens, and Melville -- Breaking the House of Romance: Holmes in dialogue with Hawthorne -- Closing the Conversation -- Conclusion: Holmes Senior in dialogue with Holmes Junior.

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.

ISBN: 9780511485503 (ebook)Subjects--Personal Names:

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell,
1809-1894--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature and society
--History--United States--19th century.

LC Class. No.: PS1992.C67 / G54 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 818/.309

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