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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Duffy, Timothy P. "The Gender of Letters: The Man of Letters and Intellectual Authority in Nineteenth-Century Boston," Department of History, University of Virginia, August 1993.
This dissertation explores the intellectual authority of men of letters in the context of changing attitudes toward gender, focusing on the careers of Joseph Stevens Buckminster (1784-1812), Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), and Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908). An examination of the ideal of the Christian Gentleman, the role of clubiness, suffering, the amateur tradition, professional authorship, and war, demonstrates how a presumptive masculine perspective gave way to an ambiguous understanding of the gender of letters at mid-century, until the genteel tradition endorsed a more fragmented view of gender and authority by the end of the century.
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