Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel

by Philip Fisher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041313
• ISBN13: 9780195041316
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"