Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers Literature, Humor, and Faddish Phrenology
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- Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers
- Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 The Birth of a Controversial Doctrine
- 2 Coming to America
- 3 Skeptical in Hannibal
- 4 The River, the West, and Phrenology Abroad
- 5 Mark Twain’s “Small Test”
- 6 Tom, Huck, and the Head Readers
- 7 More Head Readings and a Phrenological Farewell
- 8 Young Holmes and Phrenology in Boston
- 9 An American in Paris
- 10 Quackery and Holmes’s Head Reading
- 11 Holmes’s Professor on “Bumpology”
- 12 Holmes’s “Medicated Novels”
- 13 Mr. Clemens and Dr. Holmes
- 14 Phrenology Assessed
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2023
Book contents
- Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers
- Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Preface
- 1 The Birth of a Controversial Doctrine
- 2 Coming to America
- 3 Skeptical in Hannibal
- 4 The River, the West, and Phrenology Abroad
- 5 Mark Twain’s “Small Test”
- 6 Tom, Huck, and the Head Readers
- 7 More Head Readings and a Phrenological Farewell
- 8 Young Holmes and Phrenology in Boston
- 9 An American in Paris
- 10 Quackery and Holmes’s Head Reading
- 11 Holmes’s Professor on “Bumpology”
- 12 Holmes’s “Medicated Novels”
- 13 Mr. Clemens and Dr. Holmes
- 14 Phrenology Assessed
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
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- Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head ReadersLiterature, Humor, and Faddish Phrenology, pp. 339 - 346Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023