title: Lost in the Customhouse: Authorship in the American Renaissance
author:  Jerome Loving 
description: "In this age of deconstructive and new historicist literary criticism--criticism which frequently devalues the literature and elevates the critical method--it is refreshing to find a critic who profoundly respects the literature of which he writes. . . . Loving is a readers' critic, one who works to increase our appreciation for the fiction and the poetry that has become part of our national tradition. . . . [His] argument is persuasive, both in its reading of the American Renaissance and in its taking-on of the dominant critical methodologies. Indeed, while Loving is scholarly and intelligent throughout his discussion of the literature, he is refreshingly readable. He places us comfortably in the lives and minds of these writers, and shines a gentle light on the words that constitute their art."--Salem Press<br /><br />"A lively, idiosyncratic, often illuminating study."--Nineteenth-Century Literature<br /><br />"In this boldly counter-fashionable book, Jerome Loving offers a committed teacher's view of twelve canonical American authors. The result is an impressive account of our strangely somnambulistic and posthumous classics and of the cultural reasons why they had to be that way."--Frederick Crews
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  How Lisa Loved the King
  
  
  
  
  
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  # How Lisa Loved the King
  
  
  ### George Eliot
  
  
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  Transcribed from the 1884 D. Lothrop and Company edition by David Price, email
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  HOW LISA LOVED THE KING  
  
  
  BY  
  GEORGE ELIOT  
  AUTHOR OF “DANIEL DERONDA,” “MIDDLEMARCH,”  
  “ADAM BEDE,” ETC., ETC  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  WITH NEW ILLUSTRATIONS  
  FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  BOSTON  
  D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY  
  FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Copyright by  
  D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY  
  1884  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Presswork by Berwick &Smith, 118 Purchase Street, Boston.  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
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  Six hundred years ago, in Dante's time,  
  Before his cheek was furrowed by de