Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance

1995 University of Iowa Press hardcover, Jerome Loving (Jack and Norman: A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song") . 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. - Amazon