Other Things Being EqualWayne State University Press, 1 мар. 2002 г. - Всего страниц: 280 Widely regarded as a literary genius in her day, the Jewish American author Emma Wolf (1865-1932) wrote vivid stories that penetrated the struggles of women and people of faith, particularly Jews, at the turn of the twentieth century. This reissue of the 1916 revised edition of one of her most popular novels, Other Things Being Equal, first published in 1892, introduces Wolf to a new generation of readers, immersing them in an interfaith love story set in her native San Francisco in the late nineteenth century. The novel's protagonist, Ruth Levice, a young intellectual from an upper-class Jewish family, meets Dr. Herbert Kemp, a Unitarian, and falls in love. The novel's force lies in its unwillingness to adhere to ideological stands. A woman need not give up marriage and home to be strong, independent, and unconventional; a Jew does not have to be orthodox to remain close to her heritage and her faith. |
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... Kemp and provides a benign, if not altogether positive, picture of the effects of the rest cure itself. Overall, the novel engages the dis' cussion of women's changing roles (as does much of Wolf's fic' tion) while offering an ...
... Kemp and provides a benign, if not altogether positive, picture of the effects of the rest cure itself. Overall, the novel engages the dis' cussion of women's changing roles (as does much of Wolf's fic' tion) while offering an ...
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... Kemp, a Unitarian, and not with the brotherly figure of her cousin Louis Arnold, a wry, contentious, yet consci' entious and honorable man who loves her and asks for her hand in marriage. Ruth refuses Louis because she is in love with Kemp ...
... Kemp, a Unitarian, and not with the brotherly figure of her cousin Louis Arnold, a wry, contentious, yet consci' entious and honorable man who loves her and asks for her hand in marriage. Ruth refuses Louis because she is in love with Kemp ...
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... Kemp's relationship, Kemp's strong personality traits emerge and can be seen, not only as what attracts Ruth, but as those attributes necessary for successful administration of the rest cure. Ruth's father describes Dr. Kemp to Ruth as ...
... Kemp's relationship, Kemp's strong personality traits emerge and can be seen, not only as what attracts Ruth, but as those attributes necessary for successful administration of the rest cure. Ruth's father describes Dr. Kemp to Ruth as ...
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... Kemp's relationship to Ruth, though seeming to position him as Ruth's superior because of his professional role, in practice, gives her the opportunity for independent action and risk'taking relationships outside the home. In an ...
... Kemp's relationship to Ruth, though seeming to position him as Ruth's superior because of his professional role, in practice, gives her the opportunity for independent action and risk'taking relationships outside the home. In an ...
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... Kemp. On his deathbed, however, Levice overturns this decision and concludes that “character and circumstance are not altogether of our own making . . . only God can weigh such circuma stantial evidence, . . . final judgment is reserved ...
... Kemp. On his deathbed, however, Levice overturns this decision and concludes that “character and circumstance are not altogether of our own making . . . only God can weigh such circuma stantial evidence, . . . final judgment is reserved ...
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