The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction

by Anthony Channell Hilfer and Tony Hilfer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292741138
• ISBN13: 9780292741133
• Release Date: March 1981
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"