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• catalog abstract "In this spirited challenge to dominant American literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the nineteenth century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for prophetic and revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of the last century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society. From Washington Irving to Theodore Dreiser, Loving finds the American literary tradition filled with narrators who keep waking up to the central scene of the author's real or imagined life. They travel through a customhouse of the imagination in which the Old World experience of the present is taxed by the New World of the utopian past, where life is always cyclical instead of linear and ameliorative. Loving argues that the central literary experience in nineteenth-century America is the puritanical desire for the time before the loss of innocence - that endless chance of coming into experience anew. Lost in the Customhouse begins with a discussion of Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson and finds these seminal Renaissance writers waking up primarily to psychological facts which blossomed into the fiction of a self begotten out of the nothingness of experience. In part 2, Loving shifts his attention to the urbanization of the American imagination and discusses Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser. Here the dream-driven impulse is more clearly influenced by social history: abolition, women's suffrage, industrialization, and the growth of professionalism. Loving focuses upon the role of the woman who finds herself on the same frontier as her male precursors - "with nothing but a carpetbag - that is to say, the [American] ego." Throughout the study, Loving challenges the notion that American literature is preponderately "cultural work." In the epilogue, he packs up his own carpetbag and passes through the European customhouse to find that American writers are more readily perceived as literary geniuses outside of their culture than within it.".
• catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
• catalog contributor b4127576.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "1. Irving'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 -- 7. Whitman's idea of women -- 8. Twain's cigar-store Indians -- 9. Dickinson's unpublished canon -- 10. Henry James's pearl at great price -- 11. Chopin's twenty-ninth bather -- 12. Dreiser's novel about a nun.".
• catalog description "In this spirited challenge to dominant American literary criticism, Jerome Loving extends the traditional period of American literary rebirth to the end of the nineteenth century and argues for the intrinsic value of literature in the face of new historicist and deconstructionist readings. Bucking the trend for prophetic and revisionist interpretations, Loving discusses the major work of the last century's canonized writers as restorative adventures with the self and society. From Washington Irving to Theodore Dreiser, Loving finds the American literary tradition filled with narrators who keep waking up to the central scene of the author's real or imagined life. They travel through a customhouse of the imagination in which the Old World experience of the present is taxed by the New World of the utopian past, where life is always cyclical instead of linear and ameliorative. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-239) and index.".
• catalog description "Loving argues that the central literary experience in nineteenth-century America is the puritanical desire for the time before the loss of innocence - that endless chance of coming into experience anew. Lost in the Customhouse begins with a discussion of Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, and Emerson and finds these seminal Renaissance writers waking up primarily to psychological facts which blossomed into the fiction of a self begotten out of the nothingness of experience. In part 2, Loving shifts his attention to the urbanization of the American imagination and discusses Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Chopin, and Dreiser. Here the dream-driven impulse is more clearly influenced by social history: abolition, women's suffrage, industrialization, and the growth of professionalism. ".
• catalog description "Loving focuses upon the role of the woman who finds herself on the same frontier as her male precursors - "with nothing but a carpetbag - that is to say, the [American] ego." Throughout the study, Loving challenges the notion that American literature is preponderately "cultural work." In the epilogue, he packs up his own carpetbag and passes through the European customhouse to find that American writers are more readily perceived as literary geniuses outside of their culture than within it.".
• catalog extent "xx, 248 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Lost in the customhouse.".
• catalog identifier "0877454043 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Lost in the customhouse.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Iowa City : University of Iowa Press,".
• catalog relation "Lost in the customhouse.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog subject "810.9/003 20".
• catalog subject "American literature 19th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
• catalog subject "Authorship Social aspects United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "Canon (Literature)".
• catalog subject "Literature and society United States History 19th century.".
• catalog subject "PS201 .L64 1993".
• catalog subject "Self in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Irving'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 -- 7. Whitman's idea of women -- 8. Twain's cigar-store Indians -- 9. Dickinson's unpublished canon -- 10. Henry James's pearl at great price -- 11. Chopin's twenty-ninth bather -- 12. Dreiser's novel about a nun.".
• catalog title "Lost in the customhouse : authorship in the American renaissance / Jerome Loving.".
• catalog type "text".