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Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

          
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.'s Breakfast Table Trilogy was a series of extremely popular essays published in The Atlantic Monthly from its first issue in 1857 to 1870. Speaking to the cultural and religious concerns of the period, these essays made Holmes famous on both sides of the Atlantic.

Author William C. Dowling brings together literary criticism, philosophy, and the history of science to re-examine the Breakfast Table Trilogy through the lens of what Holmes learned as a medical student in Paris in the 1830s--during the Paris revolution in clinical teaching that laid the foundations of modern medicine. There, the young Holmes gained the experience that would eventually manifest so richly in the Breakfast Table Trilogy, which Dowling argues was the major American contribution to the literature of Victorian religious anxiety, keeping company with the works of Tennyson and Carlyle.

Though based on the uncompromising philosophical materialism of such works as La Mettrie's L'Homme machine, his experiences in Paris would ultimately suggest to Holmes an alternative view of the bleak physical universe brought into view by Lyell's Principles of Geology and Darwin's Origin of Species. In the Breakfast Table Trilogy' as well as in the writings he produced during his career at Harvard Medical School' Holmes would argue that science, as much as art, music, or literature, was the creation of a human consciousness existing outside or beyond purely physical laws. Holmes's metaphysics of consciousness, Dowling maintains, accounts for his enormous impact on readers on both sides of the Atlantic during the later nineteenth century. In his Paris medical studies lie the hidden origins of that religio medici' or "physician's religion," that would subsequently permit Holmes, in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly, to emerge as spiritual physician to an age of religious doubt.

"In Dowling's narrative, one can virtually see Holmes developing into the great physician, anatomist, teacher and thinker he would eventually become, all written . . . from the perspective not only of medical theory but also the atmosphere and worldview born out of the zeitgeist to which he was exposed during his time in Paris. This is as much a philosophy book as it is a biography, a study of a distinctive period in medical history or a panoramic and yet intimate survey of early nineteenth-century Paris. This book is a wonder." --Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D., author of How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, winner of the National Book Award
About the Author: WILLIAM C. DOWLING is University Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University. He has written ten books, including Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson (1999), The Senses of the Text (1998), The Epistolary Moment: The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle (1991), and Jameson, Althusser, Marx (1984).


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  • ISBN-13: 9781584655800
  • Publisher: University Press of New England
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of New England
  • Edition: Annotated edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 304 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1584655801
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 179
  • Series Title: Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies (Paperback)
  • Sub Title: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
  • Width: 153 mm


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