Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance

Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance / Jerome Loving.

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 re...

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Main Author: Loving, Jerome, 1941-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1993.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1830-1870.
Geschichte 1819-1900.
Geschichte 1830-1900.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Authorship > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Self in literature.
Canon (Literature)
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Authorship > Social aspects
Literature and society
Self in literature
Literatur
United States
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10.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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