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The Feeling of Being: Sensibility in Postwar American Fiction by Walter Shear (Hardback, 2002)

The confusions and anxieties of the early Cold War created a propitious cultural climate for the flowering of the sensibility narrative. Skepticism about pre-World War II ideologies and about social demands encouraged an intensely personal fiction, one which in its privileging individual experience was configured as the self making its way in the world. Reflecting America's growing prosperity, characters move from a psychology of scarcity to a psychology of abundance with wrenching disorientation. Their journey through the world is made exotically colorful with humorous self-awareness and irony.

Issn
1078-0521
Series Part/Volume Number
31
Series Title
Modern American Literature
Author Biography
The Author: Walter Shear is Professor Emeritus of English at Pittsburgh State University in Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). A specialist in American literature, he has published in journals and anthologies on a variety of writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Saul Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Bernard Malamud, and William Saroyan.
Date of Publication
01/03/2002
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Literary Criticism

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