An Imperative Duty

ISBN-13: 9781551119144 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 200 str.

W.D. Howells;Paul R. Petrie

Opis

Addresses the then-controversial topic of interracial marriage. This title 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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
W.D. Howells: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

An Imperative Duty

• First Installment: Chapters I–V: July 1891
  Second Installment: Chapters VI–VII: August 1891
  Third Installment: Chapters VIII–X: September 1891
  Fourth Installment: Chapters XI–XIII: September 1891
  

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews and Responses

1. Laurence Hutton, “Literary Notes,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (November 1891)
2. “The Color Line,” New York Times (30 November 1891)
3. The Critic (16 January 1892)
4. “Novels of the Week,” The Athenaeum (13 February 1892)
5. The Nation (25 February 1892)
6. From Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South (1892)
7. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “As a Friend of the Colored Man,” Boston Evening Transcript (24 February 1912)

Appendix B: The “Tragic Mulatta” in Literature

1. From Grace King, “The Little Convent Girl” (1893)
2. From Matt Crim, “Was It an Exceptional Case?” (1891)
3. W.D. Howells, “The Pilot’s Story” (1860)

Appendix C: Interracial Marriage and the “Science” of Race

1. From Joseph-Arthur, Comte de Gobineau, Essay on the Inequality of Human Races (1853–55)
2. From J.C. Nott, Types of Mankind (1854)
3. From Frederick L. Hoffman, The Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro (1896)
4. Pace v. State of Alabama (1883)
5. From Henry W. Grady, “In Plain Black and White” (1885)
6. From Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Future American” (1900)
7. From W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of Races” (1897)

Appendix D: Appendix D:W.D. Howells’s Theory of Realism—The “Editor’s Study” Columns

1. May 1886 [Realism and Romance]
2. November 1886 [Aesthetics and Ethics]
3. April 1887 [Art,Truth, and Morality]
4. September 1887 [Realism and Democracy]
5. December 1887 [The Real and the Ideal Grasshopper]
6. March 1888 [Can Fiction Help the People It Depicts?]
7. December 1888 [Christmas Literature]

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