Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

by Peter Gibian

Book Overview

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"