Table of Contents

I: Holmes's Imaginative Prose: Form and Contents  
 
II: The Autocrat as an Account of Mid-Life Crisis

III: The Power of Silence and the Limits of Discourse
     at the Professor's Breakfast Table

IV: The Denial of Freedom in Elsie Venner: Holmes's
      Romance of Destiny

V: The Vindication of Freedom in The Guardian Angel

VI: The Rise of the Specialist and the Eclipse of the
      Humanist at the Poet's Breakfast Table    

VII: Morality in the New Society in A Mortal
      Antipathy      

VIII:  Over the Teacups as an Account of Senescence
        and a Last Testament

Endnotes

Annotated Bibliography

Index