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Oliver Wendell Holmes confronts original sin in this medical case study-cum-romance. Elsie Venner is your typical teenage girl. But unlike her classmates at the Apollinean Female Institute, her mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant. Not a girl, not yet a woman, and also not quite human, Elsie battles the snake within. Published after Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and before Freud’s Studies on Hysteria, this wild tale undresses Puritanism and anticipates psychoanalysis. Elsie Venner is sure to slither its way into your heart.
This is the book for you if…
You’ve ever done psychoanalysis.
You’re Britney Spears when she danced with the python.
You’re from Boston.
You’re in love with your teacher.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94) was an American physician, writer and public intellectual. He established a medical practice in Boston and served as a professor and dean at Harvard Medical School, while also cofounding the Atlantic Monthly, a magazine he named. His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., served as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.
PREORDER NOW! SHIPS IN LATE OCTOBER!
Oliver Wendell Holmes confronts original sin in this medical case study-cum-romance. Elsie Venner is your typical teenage girl. But unlike her classmates at the Apollinean Female Institute, her mother was bitten by a rattlesnake while pregnant. Not a girl, not yet a woman, and also not quite human, Elsie battles the snake within. Published after Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and before Freud’s Studies on Hysteria, this wild tale undresses Puritanism and anticipates psychoanalysis. Elsie Venner is sure to slither its way into your heart.
This is the book for you if…
You’ve ever done psychoanalysis.
You’re Britney Spears when she danced with the python.
You’re from Boston.
You’re in love with your teacher.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–94) was an American physician, writer and public intellectual. He established a medical practice in Boston and served as a professor and dean at Harvard Medical School, while also cofounding the Atlantic Monthly, a magazine he named. His son, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., served as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court from 1902 to 1932.
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