| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 203 pages) |
| 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 |
| Summary |
"Explication of Holmes's didactic works, including A Mortal Antipathy and Over the Teacups, which substantiates Holmes as a serious writer of the New England Renaissance whose ideology of self-determination as an American value is as relevant to modern society as it was to the agrarian and industrial societies he addressed"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-199) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 |
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, (1809-1894) -- Critique et interprétation. |
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Didactic literature, American -- History and criticism
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Autonomy (Psychology) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Autonomy (Psychology) in literature
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Didactic literature, American
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780826265401 |
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0826265405 |
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