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Author | : W.D. Howells |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2010-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1770481508 |
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An Imperative Duty tells the story of Rhoda Aldgate, a young woman on the verge of marriage who has been raised by her aunt to assume that she is white, but who is in fact the descendant of an African-American grandmother. The novel traces the struggles of Rhoda, her family, and her suitor to come to terms with the implications of Rhoda’s heritage. Howells employs this stock situation to explore the newly urgent questions of identity, morality, and social policy raised by “miscegenation” in the post-Reconstruction United States. The novel imagines interracial marriage sympathetically at a time when racist sentiment was on the rise, and does this in one of Howells’s most aesthetically economical performances in the short novel form. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include material on the “tragic mulatta” in literature, interracial marriage, the “science” of race in the nineteenth century, and Howells’s literary realism.
Author | : Abraham Lawton |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1865 |
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Download Man's imperative duty to God in divine worship set forth, etc. (The word Friend examined and put before men, etc.). Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : W.D. Howells |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2010-03-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551119145 |
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An Imperative Duty tells the story of Rhoda Aldgate, a young woman on the verge of marriage who has been raised by her aunt to assume that she is white, but who is in fact the descendant of an African-American grandmother. The novel traces the struggles of Rhoda, her family, and her suitor to come to terms with the implications of Rhoda’s heritage. Howells employs this stock situation to explore the newly urgent questions of identity, morality, and social policy raised by “miscegenation” in the post-Reconstruction United States. The novel imagines interracial marriage sympathetically at a time when racist sentiment was on the rise, and does this in one of Howells’s most aesthetically economical performances in the short novel form. Appendices to this Broadview Edition include material on the “tragic mulatta” in literature, interracial marriage, the “science” of race in the nineteenth century, and Howells’s literary realism.
Author | : Hans Jonas |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226405974 |
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Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3849657523 |
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Mr. Howells' latest novel deserves and will receive wide reading. It deals with a problem which had found its way into American social life of his time: "How will a cultivated and beautiful woman feel if she discovers that she has a tinge of negro blood in her veins? How will other people, particularly her lover, feel and act?" Mr. Howells works out the problem with skill, on what seem to us sound lines of reasoning. 'An Imperative Duty' is so mature a work, and so good an example of the author's method, that it invites the closest scrutiny. It is written with his usual acuteness and cleverness, but with even more than his ordinary amount of self-consciousness. He is continually trying to say clever things, and he seems here a kind of intellectual conventionalist ; we feel that he would commit a minor crime rather than fail in the proper tone. As one reads he plants his feet as circumspectly as in threading his way in a crowded parlor where trains abound. One is exhausted in the effort to keep up to the author's intensely self-conscious key. It is too much like the brilliant persiflage of a dinner-party when everybody means more than he says and challenges his listeners to see the target at which he is really aiming. The glow and "fling" of high creative work are thus rendered impossible to the author, and the reader falls into a hyper-critical state of mind. Mr. Howells is at his best when describing distinctive American types. The cultivated Frenchman and the cultivated American are much more alike than are the Frenchman and the American on lower levels; and when a writer selects his characters from Beacon Street and the "Cours la Reine" he has less opportunity to be picturesque than when he deals with Hanover Street and the "Quartier Latin." Mr. Howells is an artist of the first order like Henry James. He works by rule, and the result is the product of high talent.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1962 |
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Author | : H. J. Paton |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1971-10-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780812210231 |
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A classic exposition of Kant's ethical thought.
Author | : William Dean Howells |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : William Dean Howells |
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Total Pages | : 150 |
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Total Pages | : 1166 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Law |
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