Title: The imaginative prose of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Description: "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.
Subjects: American Didactic literature, Autonomy (Psychology) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, History and criticism, Holmes, oliver wendell, 1809-1894, Didactic literature, history and criticism, Physicians, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, History, 19th Century, Medicine in Literature, Personal Autonomy, History
People: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)