Hilfer, Anthony Channell 1936-

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Birth 1936

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Dr. Anthony Channell Hilfer (1936-2008) was a Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. After receiving his B.A. from Middlebury College (1958), M.A. from Columbia University (1960), and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina (1963), he taught at UT from 1963 to 2008, specializing in crime fiction and film noir. He was the author of numerous influential books, including The Ethics of Intensity in American Fiction (1981), The Crime Novel: A Deviant Genre (1990), American Fiction Since 1940 (1992), and The New Hegemony in Literary Studies (2003).

From the guide to the Tony Hilfer Papers 2008-194; 2011-044., [ca. 1950s-2008], (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

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Subjects:

  • American literature
  • Characters and characteristics in literature
  • Crime in literature
  • Criticism
  • Detectives and mystery stories

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