Oliver Wendell Holmes - A Willing Servant to an Unknown God

Challenges much of the conventional wisdom about Holmes, exploring his identity through his nineteenth-century social and intellectual context.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Soldier's Faith: Prologue: Memorial Day, 1884; 1. Our comfortable routine; 2. War is horrible and dull; 3. The great chorus of life and joy begins again; 4. For the Puritan still lives in New England, Thank God!; Part II. The Journey to the Pole: Commencement speech: Brown University, 1897; 5. A black and frozen night; 6. The loneliness of original work; 7. The master of himself; Epilogue: the consummation.

About the author

Catharine Pierce Wells is Professor of Law at the Law School of Boston College, Massachusetts. Wells has published more than thirty articles, with a focus in the fields of tort law and American jurisprudence.

Product details

• Authors: Catharine Wells, Catharine (Boston College Wells, Catharine (Boston College Massachusetts) Wells, Catharine Pierce Wells, Catharine Pierce (Boston College Wells
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781108475952
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47595-2
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Cambridge Historical Studies i; Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Legal Profession, Legal History, History of the Americas, Legal profession: general, Legal profession / practice of law: general