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Informationen zum Autor Peter Gibian is Associate Professor of English at McGill University, Montréal. Klappentext Gibian explores the role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Victorian culture of conversation in America. Zusammenfassung Gibian explores the role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes in what was known as America's 'Age of Conversation'. Combining social! intellectual! legal and literary history with textual analysis! and setting Holmes in dialogue with Emerson! Hawthorne and Melville! Gibian redefines our understanding of the writing of the American Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
