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Gibian, Peter: Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation.(Book Review)

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From: History: Review of New Books
Date: 20020322
Author:Barnes, Howard A.

Gibian, Peter Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation New York: Cambridge University Press 398 pp., $74.95, ISBN 0-521-56026-8 Publication Date: December 2001

Current notions that ours is the original "age of anxiety" are probably incorrect. Peter Gibian, an associate professor of English at McGill University, shows that Oliver Wendell Holmes (1808-1894) and his culture were rife with tensions and ambiguities. Holmes's writings, as interpreted by Gibian, open an important window on the nineteenth century. Nevertheless, only a relatively small number of literary ...

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