The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Volume 1),Used
The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Volume 1),Used

The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes (Volume 1),Used

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One of the most popular serious writers of the midnineteenth century, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., was a major figure of the New England Renaissance and wrote seven volumes of imaginative prose that were hybrids of essay and fiction. His four tabletalk books initiated the form of the dramatized essay, and his three novelsstyled as romances medicated by intellectual discoursewere among the first examples of ideologically didactic fiction.Michael A. Weinstein now traces Holmess intellectual trajectory across these works to show how his thought evolved over the course of his life and in response to Americas transition from an agrarian to an industrial society. Through close readings of this eclectic ouevreincluding such lesserknown late works as A Mortal Antipathy and Over the Teacupshe offers a comprehensive interpretation of Holmess thought concerning the American national character, showing him to have had a far richer understanding of human experience than other scholars have previously supposed.This is the first book to consider Holmess imaginative prose as a whole and to defend its systematic structure against critics who have branded him a dilettante lacking system or seriousness. Through a careful explication of characters and themes, Weinstein finds at the core of these works a high regard for selfdetermination as a quintessential American value: an affirmation of the freedom of individuals to decide for themselves how to respond to a human condition that can be as perilous as it is promising. In the course of his analysis, Weinstein engages the spectrum of Holmes criticism and also shows how Holmes anticipated the cultural problems of modernity, pluralism, psychoanalysis, and existentialism, as well as postmodern literary expression.Through his insightful assessment, Weinstein gives us an author whose respect for individual judgment is as relevant in todays society, torn by cultural politics, as it was in his own time. His book restores Holmes to his place in the canon while introducing a wider readership to a perceptive writer who offers not only insight into the moral possibilities of American identity but also genuine wit and wisdom about the art of living.

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