Background
Fulweiler, Howard Wells was born on August 26, 1932 in Media, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard Wells and Mary Louise (Boyles) Fulweiler.
(Contemporary readers who look at late-eigteenth-century o...)
Contemporary readers who look at late-eigteenth-century or nineteenth-century imaginative literature must be struch by a phenomenon that is nearly universal in the period: the powerful presence of sentimentality. An often overlooked fact is that Sentimentalitynot only is a critical term, but is limited to a historical period, from roughly 1700 to the present. Fulweiler's hypothesis is that setimentality in writing has played a crucial part in shaping Western consciousness. As a study of evolution of consciousness-rather than the history of ideas- the argument grows out of the work of philosophers such as Ernst Cassirer and Susanne Langer, historical philosophers including R.G. Collingwood, Thomas Kuhn, and Michel Foucault, historically oriented literary critics such as Erich Auerbach, and finally the eclectic writing of Owen Barfield. Fulweiler's hypothesis is that the general consciousness of Western society has undergone severe shocks as a result of the loss-and sometimes repression- of an older human awareness of what anthropologists have called participation,a term that may be defined as a non-sensory link between human beings and nature. This loss of participation has become gradually apparant with the erosiion of its visible emblems: The Church (with its supporting Law); the extended family, as visualized in feudal, hierarchical theories of society; and finally the nineteeth-century ideal, the nuclear family, with its sacred location, the home, and its glorified Proprietress, the Woman. Sentimentality emerges, then, as a desperate, if often illegitimate, attempt to regain what has been lost, so that imaginative literature of the nineteenth century, even very good literature, is overwhelmed by domestic sentimentality. In the twentieth century it has been heavily, although covertly, affected by a sexual sentimentality of the previous era. This sentimental journey is traced by focusing on six major writers: Tennyson and Dickens as the giants of Victorian domestic sentimentality, Hopkins and Hardy as transitional figures in whom the sentimental tropes of the ninteenth century are moving toward the sexual sentimentality of the twentieth, Lawrence and Eliot as representatives, in different ways, of that era. This multi-faceted study will be of considerable interest to specialists across a number of fields including literature, history, psychology, philosophy, and religious studies.
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Fulweiler, Howard Wells was born on August 26, 1932 in Media, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Howard Wells and Mary Louise (Boyles) Fulweiler.
Graduate, Kent School, 1950. Bachelor, University South Dakota, 1954. Master of Arts, University South Dakota, 1957.
Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1960.
Teaching fellow, U. South Dakot, 1956-1957; teaching fellow, U. North Carolina, 1957-1959, 59-60; assistant professor, U. Missouri at Columbia, 1960-1964; associate professor, U. Missouri at Columbia, 1964-1970; Professor of English, U. Missouri at Columbia, since 1970; department chairman, U. Missouri at Columbia, 1967-1971.
(Contemporary readers who look at late-eigteenth-century o...)
(Contemporary readers who look at late-eigteenth-century o...)
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Served to Lieutenant Army of the United States, 1954-1956. Member Modern Language Association American, Midwest Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors.
Married Sally Starr Nichols, December 28, 1953. Children— Peter, John, Mary, Annual.