Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance /
Loving, Jerome, 1941-
Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance / Jerome Loving. - Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1993. - 1 online resource (xx, 248 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.
Prologue; Acknowledgments; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART ONE; 1. living's Paradigm; 2. Hawthorne's Awakening in the Customhouse; 3. Melville's High on the Seas; 4. Poe's Voyage from Edgartown; 5. Emerson's Beautiful Estate; 6. Thoreau's Quarrel with Emerson; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART TWO; 7. Whitman's Idea of Women; 8. Twain's Cigar-Store Indians; 9. Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10. Henry James's Pearl at a Great Price; 11. Chopin's Twenty-Ninth Bather; 12. Dreiser's Novel About a Nun; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
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In this vigorous challenge to dominant literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the 19th century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of the 19th century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society. From Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson to Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser, Loving finds the American liter.
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22573/ctt20gqcmf JSTOR
1800-1899
Geschichte 1830-1870.
Geschichte 1819-1900.
Geschichte 1830-1900.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
Authorship--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Self in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.--19e siècle
Art d'écrire--Aspect social--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Authorship--Social aspects.
Canon (Literature)
Literature and society.
Self in literature.
Literatur
United States.
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PS201 / .L64 1993eb
810.9/003
Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance / Jerome Loving. - Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1993. - 1 online resource (xx, 248 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.
Prologue; Acknowledgments; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART ONE; 1. living's Paradigm; 2. Hawthorne's Awakening in the Customhouse; 3. Melville's High on the Seas; 4. Poe's Voyage from Edgartown; 5. Emerson's Beautiful Estate; 6. Thoreau's Quarrel with Emerson; THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE : PART TWO; 7. Whitman's Idea of Women; 8. Twain's Cigar-Store Indians; 9. Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10. Henry James's Pearl at a Great Price; 11. Chopin's Twenty-Ninth Bather; 12. Dreiser's Novel About a Nun; Epilogue; Notes; Index.
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In this vigorous challenge to dominant literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the 19th century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of the 19th century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society. From Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson to Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser, Loving finds the American liter.
Electronic reproduction.
[Place of publication not identified] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
1587291355 (electronic bk.) 9781587291357 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper) (alk. paper)
22573/ctt20gqcmf JSTOR
1800-1899
Geschichte 1830-1870.
Geschichte 1819-1900.
Geschichte 1830-1900.
American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.--19th century
Authorship--Social aspects--History--United States--19th century.
Literature and society--History--United States--19th century.
Self in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Littérature américaine--Histoire et critique--Théorie, etc.--19e siècle
Art d'écrire--Aspect social--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Littérature et société--Histoire--États-Unis--19e siècle.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature.
Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
Authorship--Social aspects.
Canon (Literature)
Literature and society.
Self in literature.
Literatur
United States.
USA
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PS201 / .L64 1993eb
810.9/003