Background
Hilfer, Anthony Channell was born on October 19, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Harry and Ruth Forrester (Channell) Hilfer.
(This incisive book traces the attack on American provinci...)
This incisive book traces the attack on American provincialism that ended the myth of the Happy Village. Replacing the idyllic life as a theme, American writers in revolt turned to a more realistic interpretation of the town, stressing its repressiveness, dullness, and conformity. This book analyzes the literary technique employed by these writers and explores their sensibilities to evaluate both their artistic accomplishments and their contributions to American thought and feeling. Originally published 1969. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
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( Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William Jame...)
Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William James, Dewey, and Mead and focusing upon major works by Whitman, Stein, Howells, Dreiser, and Henry James, Anthony Hilfer explores how these authors have structured their characters' consciousness, their purpose in doing so, and how this presentation controls the reader's moral response. Hilfer contends that there was a significant change in the mode of character presentation in American literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The self defined in terms of a Victorian ethic and judged adversely for its departures from that code shifted to the self defined in terms of emotional intensity and judged adversely for its failures of nerve. In the first mode, characters are almost always wrong to yield to desire; in the second, characters are frequently wrong not to and, in fact, are seen less as the sum of their ethical choices than as the process of their longings. His conclusion: modern fiction is as overbalanced toward pathos as Victorian fiction was toward ethos. but the continued dialectic between the two is a tension that ought not be resolved.
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Hilfer, Anthony Channell was born on October 19, 1936 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Harry and Ruth Forrester (Channell) Hilfer.
Bachelor, Middlebury College, 1958. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1963.
Professor, University Texas, Austin, since 1963.
( Drawing upon the philosophical theories of William Jame...)
(This incisive book traces the attack on American provinci...)
Married Marybeth Wilson, 1962 (divorced 1989). 1 child, Thomas Hailey. Married Jane Periman, 1994.