The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction /

The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction / / Tony Hilfer.

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 presen...

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Hilfer, Tony,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ethos vs. Pathos
  • 2. Pragmatic Philosophers and Realistic Novelists
  • 1. The Ethical Imperative: "Self, Self, Self in Victorian Fiction
  • 1."Self
  • 2. Religious Humanism
  • 3. Renunciation
  • 4. The Psychology of "Self
  • 5. The Analysis of "Self: Romola
  • 6. The Reaction from Analysis: The Cat on the Vivisection Table
  • 2. Whitman's Body: Kinesthetic Imagery and Sexual Pathos in "Song of Myself
  • Introduction
  • 1. Dissociations
  • 2. Reconstitutions
  • 3. A Modern Instance'. Pathos Subordinated to Ethos
  • 1. Whitman and Pathos, Eliot and Ethos
  • 2. Physical Signs as Ethical Signs
  • 3. Community Ethos: Ideal Motivations
  • 4. Tropisms: Real Motivations
  • 5. Bartley's Reveries: The Ethical Structuring of Consciousness
  • 6. Conscience as Inner Debate
  • 7. Negative Essence and False Consciousness
  • 8. Marital Realpolitik and the Stages of Degeneration
  • 9. Chance, Timing, Rhythm
  • 10. Punitive Tragedy
  • 4. Henry James: An Ethics of Intensity
  • I. "The Beast in the Jungle"
  • II. The Wings of the Dove
  • 5. Dreiser: Pathos as Ethos
  • 1. Dreiser's Barbaric Naturalism: The Ethical Attack
  • 2. Pathos as Ethos
  • 3. Dreiser's Platonism: "When I Read Spencer I Could Only Sigh"
  • 4. Carrie's Face: The Natural Expression of Longing
  • 5. Dreiser and Howells: Two Modes of Realism
  • 6. An American Tragedy: Sympathy and Discomfort
  • 6. Stein's "Melanctha": An Education in Pathos
  • 1. Stein as Radical Empiricist
  • 2. Understanding Wandering
  • 3. Real Experience: "The Squeeze of This World's Life"
  • 4. Melanctha and Jeff: Pathos vs. Ethos
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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