'A Man, So Very Nearly Perfect': William Dean Howells' 'Editha', the Spanish American War, and American masculinity in the late nineteenth century

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 249-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher F. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Moor, Mulata, Mulatta

2020 ◽  
pp. 72-103
Author(s):  
Maria A. Windell
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Spanish American War ◽  
Sentimental Literature ◽  
Racial Hierarchy ◽  
Uncle Tom's Cabin ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Cecilia Valdes ◽  
Racial Relationships

The second chapter centers a figure familiar within US sentimental literature, the tragic mulatta, placing her among hemispheric counterparts: the enslaved Moor and the Cuban mulata. Mary Peabody Mann’s only novel, Juanita (1887), offers an Uncle Tom’s Cabin-style antislavery narrative set in Cuba, importing a US racial hierarchy to the island. Mann’s novel overwrites figures such as the Cuban mulata and the mulato antislavery leader, replacing them with Eva-like children and a tragic US mulatta. Yet Cuban author Cirilo Villaverde’s novel Cecilia Valdés (1882) demonstrates how Juanita’s racial hierarchy diverges from that developing in late-nineteenth-century Cuba, which offered a different model of racial relationships. Erasing the multiracial nature of Cuba’s antislavery and anticolonial movements, Juanita prefigures US influence in Cuba following the Spanish–American War.

The Novel and the Police Power

2009 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-107
Author(s):  
Deak Nabers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Realist Novel ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
Economic Coercion ◽  
American Law ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The realist novel has long been understood in terms of its representation of the diffusion of political agency into social and economic practices. This essay claims that realism, at least as it emerged in the work of late-nineteenth-century American writers such as William Dean Howells, does not record this process of diffusion so much as anatomize it, and that novels like A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890) participated in a widespread and multivalent effort, in American law and literature alike, to specify the proper boundaries of the state's authority in relation other increasingly visible forms of social and economic coercion.

Postcolonial Social Sciences of Nineteenth-Century Spanish America

2020 ◽  
pp. 155-172
Author(s):  
Lina del Castillo
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
New Granada ◽  
Land Surveying ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Race

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Spanish American intellectuals believed science could diagnose, treat, and excise an array of “colonial legacies” left in the wake of Spanish monarchical rule. Drawing on New Granada as a case in point, this chapter considers two revealing examples of how Spanish American contributions to emerging social sciences challenged prevailing European and North Atlantic ideas about race well before the late nineteenth century adoption and adaptation of eugenics. The first example emerges from an 1830s land-surveying catechism by noted New Granadan educator and publicist, Lorenzo María Lleras. The catechism sought to ensure equitable land surveys of indigenous communal land holding. The second example spotlights José María Samper’s mid-century invention of comparative political sociology. Spanish American intellectuals like Lleras and Samper ultimately believed that the deployment of sciences in society would produce a new “race” of democratic republicans.

Authorship, Inscription, and ‘The Great American Interviewer’

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Roach
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Henry James ◽  
William Dean Howells ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Information Communication ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter begins in the late nineteenth century and argues that the interviewer becomes a powerful foil for realist writers in this era of celebrity. The new figure of the interviewer raised difficult questions around processes of inscription, both mechanical and aesthetic, provoking anxieties around boundaries between public and private, bodies and machines, and about the credibility and authority of information communication via these networks. Drawing on the writings of Henry James and William Dean Howells, amongst others, this chapter demonstrates that the interviewer becomes bound up with debates about the limitations of the realist project and also comes to represent the excesses of optical scrutiny to which the realist author does not succumb. For Henry James in particular, interviewing becomes a crucial site for him to reflect on the embodied nature of communication in general.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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