Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Culture Of Conversation

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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

Author : Peter Gibian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521560269
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation written by Peter Gibian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Conversation of His Culture

Author : Peter Andrew Gibian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Conversation of His Culture written by Peter Andrew Gibian and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Author : Michael A. Weinstein
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826265405
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes written by Michael A. Weinstein and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Author : Susan-Mary Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135133387
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. written by Susan-Mary Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an eventful period of American history, as the country went from an agrarian republic to an industrialized world power. In this concise, engaging book, Susan-Mary Grant puts Holmes' life in national context, exploring how he both shaped and reflected his changing country. She examines the impact of the Civil War on his life and his thinking, his role in key cases ranging from the issue of free speech in Schenck v. United States to the infamous ruling in favor of eugenics in Buck v. Bell, showing how behind Holmes’ reputation as a liberal justice lay a more complex approach to law that did not neatly align with political divisions. Including a selection of key primary documents, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. introduces students of U.S., Civil War, and legal history to a game-changing figure and his times.

Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris

Author : William C. Dowling
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584655800
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris written by William C. Dowling and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study that links the themes of Holmes's best-known literary works to his medical training in nineteenth-century Paris.

Conversation

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300110302
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Conversation written by Stephen Miller and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie van de geschiedenis van de westerse conversatie vanaf de Griekse Oudheid tot heden.

Culture by Conversation

Author : Robert Waters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Culture by Conversation written by Robert Waters and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939

Author : Catherine Clay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474412556
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 by : Catherine Clay

Download or read book Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939 written by Catherine Clay and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the problem of anthropomorphism: a major bone of contention in 8th to 14th-century Islamic theology

The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Author : Michael A. Weinstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes written by Michael A. Weinstein and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement

Author : Paul Eling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000388387
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement written by Paul Eling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1790s in Vienna, German physician Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) came forth with a new doctrine dealing with mind, brain and behavior—one that could account for individual differences. He maintained that there are many independent faculties of mind, each associated with a separate part of the brain. He fine-tuned his ideas and published two sets of books presenting them after he and his assistant, Johann Gaspar Spurzheim, settled in Paris in 1807. Gall's ideas had many supporters but were controversial and unsettling to others. In particular, the opposition ridiculed his belief that skull features reflect the growth of specific, underlying cortical organs, and hence correlate with personality traits (i.e., his ‘bumpology’). Gall’s fundamental ideas about the mind and organization of the brain were debated across the globe, and they also began to be exploited by unscrupulous businessmen, ‘professors’ who ‘read skulls’ for a living. But, as some historians have shown, his ideas about mind, brain and behavior led to the modern neurosciences. The chapters collected in this volume provide new insights into Gall’s thinking and what Spurzheim did, and the faddish movement called ‘phrenology’, which originated as a science of humankind but became a popular source of entertainment. All chapters were originally published in various issues of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences.

The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism

Author : Joel Myerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199716128
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism written by Joel Myerson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-16 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism offers an ecclectic, comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to the immense cultural impact of the movement that encompassed literature, art, architecture, science, and politics.

The Clerk's Tale

Author : Thomas Augst
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022679573X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Clerk's Tale written by Thomas Augst and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-09-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of men left their families for the bustling cities of nineteenth-century America, where many of them found work as clerks. The Clerk's Tale recounts their remarkable story, describing the struggle of aspiring businessmen to come of age at the dawn of the modern era. How did these young men understand the volatile world of American capitalism and make sense of their place within it? Thomas Augst follows clerks as they made their way through the boarding houses, parlors, and offices of the big city. Tracing the course of their everyday lives, Augst shows how these young men used acts of reading and writing to navigate the anonymous world of market culture and claim identities for themselves within it. Clerks, he reveals, calculated their prospects in diaries, composed detailed letters to friends and family, attended lectures by key thinkers of the day, joined libraries where they consumed fiction, all while wrestling with the boredom of their work. What results, then, is a poignant look at the literary practices of ordinary people and an affecting meditation on the moral lives of men in antebellum America.

Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers

Author : Stanley Finger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009301292
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers written by Stanley Finger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Mark Twain's and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes's interests in phrenology, as revealed, often humorously, in their writings.

A Companion to Herman Melville

Author : Wyn Kelley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119117909
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Herman Melville written by Wyn Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed

Literature and the Rise of the Interview

Author : Rebecca Roach
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198825412
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Rise of the Interview written by Rebecca Roach and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today interviews proliferate everywhere: in newspapers, on television, and in anthologies; as a method they are a major tool of medicine, the law, the social sciences, oral history projects, and journalism; and in the book trade interviews with authors are a major promotional device. We live in an 'interview society'. How did this happen? What is it about the interview form that we find so appealing and horrifying? Are we all just gossips or is there something more to it? What are the implications of our reliance on this bizarre dynamic for publicity, subjectivity, and democracy? Literature and the Rise of the Interview addresses these questions from the perspective of literary culture. The book traces the ways in which the interview form has been conceived and deployed by writers, and interviewing has been understood as a literary-critical practice. It excavates what we might call a 'poetics' of the interview form and practice. In so doing it covers 150 years and four continents. It includes a diverse rostrum of well-known writers, such as Henry James, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, William Burroughs, Philip Roth, J. M. Coetzee and Toni Morrison, while reintroducing some individuals that history has forgotten, such as Betty Ross, 'Queen of Interviewers', and Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel's profligate son. Together these stories expose the interview's position in the literary imagination and consider what this might tell us about conceptions of literature, authorship, and reading communities in modernity.

William James and the Art of Popular Statement

Author : Paul Stob
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 162895048X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book William James and the Art of Popular Statement written by Paul Stob and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, no other public intellectual was as celebrated in America as the influential philosopher and psychologist William James. Sought after around the country, James developed his ideas in lecture halls and via essays and books intended for general audiences. Reaching out to and connecting with these audiences was crucial to James—so crucial that in 1903 he identified “popular statement,” or speaking and writing in a way that animated the thought of popular audiences, as the “highest form of art.” Paul Stob’s thought-provoking history traces James’s art of popular statement through pivotal lectures, essays, and books, including his 1878 lectures in Baltimore and Boston, “Talks to Teachers on Psychology,” “The Varieties of Religious Experience,” and “Pragmatism.” The book explores James’s unique approach to public address, which involved crafting lectures in science, religion, and philosophy around ordinary people and their experiences. With democratic bravado, James confronted those who had accumulated power through various systems of academic and professional authority, and argued that intellectual power should be returned to the people. Stob argues that James gave those he addressed a central role in the pursuit of knowledge and fostered in them a new intellectual curiosity unlike few scholars before or since.

A Seamless Web

Author : Cheryll May
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443857475
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book A Seamless Web written by Cheryll May and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, American art scholars have increasingly focused on the importance of cross-cultural exchanges during the nineteenth century. As essayist François Brunet puts it, mid-nineteenth century landscapes were “transnational . . . permeated by complex transactions where ‘American’ originality produced itself not only in imitation of or reaction against ‘European’ influences, . . . but as critical mirroring and incorporating of ‘European’ images.” Articles in this collection make clear that the “conversation of cultures” went both ways, with American artworks and culture also affecting European artistic and literary practice. Essays explore the transnational origin of many types of American artworks, from stained glass windows, which usually copied their European originals with great exactitude, to paintings and sculptures using distinctly American motifs, such as the Puritan and the cowboy, to distinguish American art students from their Parisian masters. It also examines American cultural icons, particularly the American Indian, appropriated by European writers, artists, and philosophers to embody primeval wisdom. A distinguished international group of scholars, including Brunet, Robert Rydell, and Peter Gibian, offer valuable perspectives on the ever-broadening field of transnational cultural studies.