Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American Renaissance

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loving, Jerome.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc--19th century--United States.

American literature.

Authorship--History--Social aspects--19th century--United States.

Authorship.

Literature and society--History--19th century.

Literature and society.

Self in literature.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 fin

Contents:

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 Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10.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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781587291357

1587291355

OCLC:

44963595