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Hard Facts - Setting and Form in the American Novel (Paperback, New ed)
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Hard Facts - Setting and Form in the American Novel (Paperback, New ed)
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American culture has often been described in terms of paradigmatic
images--the wilderness, the Jeffersonian landscape of family farms,
the great industrial cities at the turn of the 19th century. But
underlying these cultural ideals are less happy paradoxes. Settling
the land meant banishing the Indians and destroying the wilderness;
Jeffersonian landscapes were created with the help of the new
country's enslaved citizens; and economic opportunities in the
cities were purchased at the high price of self-commercialization.
In this study of the popular 19th- and early 20th-century American
novel, Philip Fisher demonstrates how such works as Dreiser's
Sister Carrie and An American Tragedy, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin
and Cooper's The Deerslayer worked to make these three "hard facts"
of the 19th-century American experience familiar and tolerable--or
familiar and intolerable--to their wide audience of readers. His
perceptive analysis proves that the most important cultural "work"
was accomplished not by novels generally taken to be at the core of
the American literary canon--those of Hawthorne, Melville, or
Twain--but rather by books which never abandoned the ambition to be
widely read.
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