The Imaginative Prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes


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"Explication of Holmes's didactic works, including A Mortal Antipathy and Over the Teacups, which substantiates Holmes as a serious writer of the New England Renaissance whose ideology of self-determination as an American value is as relevant to modern society as it was to the agrarian and industrial societies he addressed"--Provided by publisher.







Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris


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










Elsie Venner


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