Oliver Wendell Holmes and "The Deacon's Masterpiece": A Logical Story?

Mattson, Janna

doi:10.2307/363337

The New England Quarterly

1968

DOI: 10.2307/363337

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Oliver Wendell Holmes and "The Deacon's Masterpiece": A Logical Story?

Janna Mattson¹

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The Power of Silence and Limits of Discourse at Oliver Wendell Holmes's Breakfast-Table

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2005

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Mark Gibian's major study of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.'s political theory casts Holmes as a democratic pluralist in the line of Richard Rorty who instantiates his commitment in the literary form of untrammeled table talk. Gibian's thesis can be challenged through a close reading of Holmes's main political work, The Professor at the Breakfast Table, revealing that Holmes's defense of free expression as the core of American national identity is counterpointed by a more fundamental appeal to nondiscursive reconciliation. Treating The Professor as a “dramatized essay” or “proto-novel” opens the possibility that the work's meaning is most fully disclosed by placing conversation in tandem with the deeds and recorded gestures that develop its plot. Through a dramatic reading, Holmes emerges as a humanist balancing aristocratic and democratic principles, rather than as a liberal discourse analyst.

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