Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Scarlet Letter
Digest of the Decisions of the Treasury Department (Customs) and of the Board of U.S. General Appraisers Rendered During the Calendar Years 1904-16 Together with Decisions of U.S. Courts in Customs Cases
Author: United States. Division of Customs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tariff
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Lost in the Customhouse
Author: Jerome Loving
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 0877459223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book 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. 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.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 0877459223
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book 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. 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.
Unfair Foreign Trade Practices
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition, International
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
House documents
Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher:
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Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customs administration
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers
Second Deficiency Appropriation Bill, 1926
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
The Custom House Murder
Author: Mike Hollow
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN: 0749026979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
First Published as Enemy Action. September, 1940. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance, but once again the night heralds more destruction. In Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the nearest public air-raid shelter as the warning siren wails. When dawn brings the all-clear, people disperse, but one man remains - he is dead, stabbed through the heart. Detective Inspector John Jago discovers that the victim was a pacifist. But why, then, was he carrying a loaded revolver in his pocket?
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN: 0749026979
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
First Published as Enemy Action. September, 1940. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance, but once again the night heralds more destruction. In Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the nearest public air-raid shelter as the warning siren wails. When dawn brings the all-clear, people disperse, but one man remains - he is dead, stabbed through the heart. Detective Inspector John Jago discovers that the victim was a pacifist. But why, then, was he carrying a loaded revolver in his pocket?
Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages and Nations
Author: Joseph Haydn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chronology, Historical
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Official Report of Debates, House of Commons
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
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