Description: A provocative new way of accounting for the spirit of America and its literary tradition, Still the New World reconsiders a set of key works by Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Twain, James, Howells, Dos Passos, and Nathanael West. With striking clarity and provocative arguments about immigration and restless technology as the two cornerstone conditions of American life, Fisher explores the creation and re-creation of a democratic poetics marked by a rivalry between abstraction, regionalism, and varieties of visual and aural realism within a literary culture forced to compete with newspapers, films, radio, and other media for the telling of stories and the depiction of democratic personality.

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