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The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) is a collection of essays written by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. The essays were originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1857 and 1858 before being collected in book form.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 1858
Jan 15, 2013 · Two articles entitled “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table” will be found in the “New England Magazine,” formerly published in Boston by J. T. and E. Buckingham. The date of the first of these articles is November 1831, and that of the second February 1832.
A study guide for Oliver Wendell Holmes's humorous essays on various topics, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1857-1858. Learn about the Autocrat's wit, philosophy, and Bostonian culture, and how they influenced American literature and science.
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- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 1858
- Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes: A National Character
- Rhetorical Form
- Key Themes
- Bibliography
A tiny, hyperactive, and hyper-loquacious bundle of energy, Dr. Holmes (not to be confused with his son, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.) wanted to play all the parts. His life (1809–1894)spanned most of the nineteenth century, and for much of that time he was recognized by his contemporaries as a national character, even a national...
Rooted in the table talk of the elite dinner clubs or common boardinghouses of nineteenth-century America, just as the early essays of Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele had been rooted in the coffeehouse discussions of eighteenth-century England, Holmes's essays were less a form for lyrical reflection or sequential argument than a social experi...
While the Autocratmay then reflect a strongly felt desire for some unifying authority, it also speaks forcefully for antebellum America's central ambivalence to such authority. For Holmes the literary conversation does not operate simply as a tour de force of cultural centralization, with a Boston Brahmin from the metropolis, through his definition...
Primary Work
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Writings of Oliver WendellHolmes.13 vols. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891.
Secondary Works
Gibian, Peter. Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture ofConversation. New York: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2001. Tilton, Eleanor M. Amiable Autocrat: A Biography of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. New York: Schuman, 1947. Peter Gibian
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