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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... Ruth Levice, who falls in love with Dr. Herbert Kemp, the physician called in by Ruth's father to administer the rest cure to his wife, who has suffered a spell of hysteria. Ruth is an atypical upper~ middleeclass, young Jewish woman ...
... Ruth Levice, who falls in love with Dr. Herbert Kemp, the physician called in by Ruth's father to administer the rest cure to his wife, who has suffered a spell of hysteria. Ruth is an atypical upper~ middleeclass, young Jewish woman ...
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... Ruth and Herbert 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 ...
... Ruth and Herbert 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 ...
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... Ruth's father has also taught her, if inadvertently, to respect a powerful man, but not to become weak in relation to that power. Ruth is dramatically unlike her mother, whose primary con' cerns are her appearance and social acceptance ...
... Ruth's father has also taught her, if inadvertently, to respect a powerful man, but not to become weak in relation to that power. Ruth is dramatically unlike her mother, whose primary con' cerns are her appearance and social acceptance ...
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... Ruth chose to act independently, without consulting either her father or mother) and Ruth's deci— sion to adhere to her beliefs. He chastises his family members for their destructive gossip about Ruth's activity. Later in the novel ...
... Ruth chose to act independently, without consulting either her father or mother) and Ruth's deci— sion to adhere to her beliefs. He chastises his family members for their destructive gossip about Ruth's activity. Later in the novel ...
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... Ruth, Rose argues, is portrayed as “a woman with liberal attitudes of uncertain limits and intelligence without outlet” (72) and is attracted to Kemp because he offers Ruth a life beyond the superficiality of upper'middle'class social ...
... Ruth, Rose argues, is portrayed as “a woman with liberal attitudes of uncertain limits and intelligence without outlet” (72) and is attracted to Kemp because he offers Ruth a life beyond the superficiality of upper'middle'class social ...
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