Oliver Wendell Holmes and the culture of conversation /

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 w...

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Main Author: Gibian, Peter, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 127.
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