Oliver Wendell Holmes And The Culture Of Conversation

Author : Peter Gibian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521560268

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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation by Peter Gibian Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Andrew Gibian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004965054

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Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Conversation of His Culture by Peter Andrew Gibian Pdf

Author : William C. Dowling
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1584655801

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Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris by William C. Dowling Pdf

An innovative study that links the themes of Holmes's best-known literary works to his medical training in nineteenth-century Paris.

Author : Stanley Finger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781009301305

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Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers by Stanley Finger Pdf

Having a phrenological 'head reading' was one of the most significant fads of the nineteenth century – a means for better knowing oneself and a guide for self-improvement. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) had a lifelong yet long overlooked interest in phrenology, the pseudoscience claiming to correlate skull features with specialized brain areas and higher mental traits. Twain's books are laced with phrenological terms and concepts, and he lampooned the head readers in Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He was influenced by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who also used his humor to assail head readers and educate the public. Finger shows that both humorists accepted certain features of phrenology, but not their skull-based ideas. By examining a fascinating topic at the intersection of literature and the history of neuroscience, this engaging study will appeal to readers interested in phrenology, science, medicine, American history, and the lives and works of Twain and Holmes.

Author : Susan-Mary Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135133382

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. by Susan-Mary Grant Pdf

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.

Author : Paul Eling,Stanley Finger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000388381

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Gall, Spurzheim, and the Phrenological Movement by Paul Eling,Stanley Finger Pdf

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.

Author : Catherine Clay
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781474412551

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

Explores the problem of anthropomorphism: a major bone of contention in 8th to 14th-century Islamic theology

Author : Denise Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313017070

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Writers of the American Renaissance by Denise Knight Pdf

The American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, and our notions of the 19th-century renaissance have been reevaluated. Mainstream anthologies have been revised to reflect the expanding literary canon, yet resources for readers have remained widely scattered. This book expands earlier definitions of the 19th-century American Renaissance as represented by canonical writers such as Emerson and Poe, covering writers who published popular fiction and dominated the literary marketplace of the day. Included is generous coverage of women writers and writers of color. The volume provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 writers of the period, including Louisa May Alcott, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and many more. Each entry was written by an expert contributor and includes a brief biography, a discussion of major works and themes, a survey of the writer's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies.

Author : Joel Myerson,Sandra Harbert Petrulionis,Laura Dassow Walls
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199716129

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The Oxford Handbook of Transcendentalism by Joel Myerson,Sandra Harbert Petrulionis,Laura Dassow Walls Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Augst
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226795737

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The Clerk's Tale by Thomas Augst Pdf

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.

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 2000 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847144706

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Dictionary Of Modern American Philosophers by John R. Shook Pdf

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, and a large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected. It includes those intellectuals involved in the development of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology, political science, and several other fields, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, a bibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading. While all the major post-Civil War philosophers are present, the most valuable feature of this dictionary is its coverage of a huge range of less well-known writers, including hundreds of presently obscure thinkers. In many cases, the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be an indispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of modern American thought.

Author : Stephen Miller
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0300110308

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Conversation by Stephen Miller Pdf

Studie van de geschiedenis van de westerse conversatie vanaf de Griekse Oudheid tot heden.

Author : Rebecca Roach
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198825418

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Literature and the Rise of the Interview by Rebecca Roach Pdf

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.

Author : Mark Durden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781135117344

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Fifty Key Writers on Photography by Mark Durden Pdf

A clear and concise survey of some of the most significant writers on photography who have played a major part in defining and influencing our understanding of the medium. It provides a succinct overview of writing on photography from a diverse range of disciplines and perspectives and examines the shifting perception of the medium over the course of its 170 year history. Key writers discussed include: Roland Barthes Susan Sontag Jacques Derrida Henri Cartier-Bresson Geoffrey Batchen Fully cross-referenced and in an A-Z format, this is an accessible and engaging introductory guide.

Author : Wyn Kelley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119117902

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A Companion to Herman Melville by Wyn Kelley Pdf

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