Peter Gibian

Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation

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Produktbeschreibung

Gibian explores the role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Victorian culture of conversation in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 412
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780521106122
• ISBN-10: 0521106125
• Artikelnr.: 25906819

Autorenporträt

Peter Gibian is Associate Professor of English at McGill University, Montréal.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Opening the Conversation: 1. The conversation of a culture: strange
powers of speech; Part II. Holmes in the Conversation of his Culture: 2.
'To change the order of conversation'; 3. 'Collisions of discourse' I: the
electrodynamics of conversation; 4. 'Collisions of discourse' II: electric
and oceanic currents of conversation; 5. A conversational approach to
truth: the doctor in dialogue with contemporary truth-sayers; 6.
Conversation and 'therapeutic nihilism': the doctor in dialogue with
contemporary medicine; 7. The self in conversation: the doctor in dialogue
with contemporary psychology; Part III. The Two Poles of Conversation: 8.
The bipolar dynamics of Holmes' household dialogues: levity and gravity; 9.
Holmes' house divided: house-keeping and house-breaking; 10. 'Cutting off
the communication': fixations and falls for the walled-in self: Holmes in
dialogue with Sterne, Dickens, and Melville; 11. Breaking the house of
romance: Holmes in dialogue with Hawthorne; Part IV. Closing the
Conversation: 12. Conclusions: Holmes Senior in dialogue with Holmes
Junior.