Still the New World – American Literature in a Culture of Creative Destruction - Hardcover

Fisher, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674838599 ISBN 13: 9780674838598

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this reinterpretation of American culture, Philip Fisher describes generational life as a series of renewed acts of immigration into a new world. Along with the actual flood of immigrants, technological change brings about an immigration of objects an systems, ways of life and techniques for the distribution of ideas. The text argues against the reduction of literature to identity questions of race, gender, and ethnicity. Ranging from roughly 1850 to 1940, when, Fisher argues, the American cultural and economic system was set in place, the book considers key works in the American canon - from Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, James, Howells, Dos Passos, and Nathaniel West, with insights into such artists as Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.

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Review:

"Still the New World" itself drifts loosely over the American landscape, illuminating major cultural currents and dipping into literary and artistic thickets that make for fascinating...exploration.--David S. Reynolds "New York Times Book Review "

About the Author:

Philip Fisher is the Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0674838599
• ISBN 13: 9780674838598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296