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Author Fisher, Philip, 1941-

Title Still the new world : American literature in a culture of creative destruction / Philip Fisher.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass ; London : Harvard University Press, 2000.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  810 F535S    Check Shelf
Edition First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
Description 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-284) and index.
Contents pt. 1. American abstraction. Democratic social space -- Whitman and the poetics of a democratic social space -- pt. 2. Defecting from American abstraction. Transparency and obscurity : Melville's Benito Cereno -- Hierarchical social space : Twain, James, and Howells -- pt. 3. Regionalism. Membership and identity -- Episodes of regionalism -- pt. 4. Realism. Realisms of detail, state, and voice -- Inventing new frames for realism.
Subject American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Literature and society -- United States -- History.
Conflict of generations in literature.
Social change in literature.
Future, The, in literature.
ISBN 0674004094
9780674004092
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