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1 online resource (xx, 248 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index. |
| 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 finds the American liter. |
| 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 Dickinson's Unpublished Canon; 10.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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
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 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American literature. |
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19th century |
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Authorship -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Authorship -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Authorship. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Literature and society. |
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Self in literature.
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Self in literature. |
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Canon (Literature)
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Canon (Literature) |
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Geschichte 1830-1870 |
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Geschichte 1819-1900 |
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Geschichte 1830-1900 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Loving, Jerome, 1941- Lost in the customhouse. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1993 0877454043 (DLC) 92033051 (OCoLC)26673094 |
| ISBN |
1587291355 (electronic book) |
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9781587291357 (electronic book) |
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0877454043 (alkaline paper) |
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9780877454045 (alkaline paper) |
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