In this bold 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 and systems, ways of life and techniques for the
distribution of ideas.
A provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of literary
tradition, "Still the New World" makes a persuasive argument
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 reconsiders key works in the American canon--from
Emerson, Whitman, and Melville, to Twain, James, Howells, Dos
Passos, and Nathanael West, with insights into such artists as
Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. With striking clarity, Fisher
shows how these artists created and recreated a democratic poetics
marked by a rivalry between abstraction, regionalism, and varieties
of realism--and in doing so, defined American culture as an ongoing
process of creative destruction.
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