Jewish Feeling
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-03037-4 (ISBN)
For authors such as Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), feeling is a complex and overlapping category that facilitates the transmission of Jewish ways of thinking into English literary forms. Dwor reads them alongside George Eliot, herself deeply engaged with issues of contemporary Jewish identity. This sheds new light on Eliot by positioning her works in a nexus of Jewish forms and concerns. Ultimately, and despite considerable differences in style and outlook, Aguilar and Levy are shown to deploy Jewish feeling in their ethics of futurity, resistance to conversion and closure, and in their foregrounding of a model of reading with feeling.
'Richa Dwor is an Instructor in the English Department at Douglas College, Canada.
Introduction: Affect and Jewish Feeling
What is affect?
What is midrash?
Midrash and affect
Chapter 1 – ‘The still undercurrent of deep feeling’: history and nation for Grace Aguilar
‘More than unusually moved’: representing women’s reading
‘The full gushing tide of rapture’: theorising women’s reading
‘The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records’ Jewish histories for England’s Jews
Chapter 2 – ‘Finer and finer discrimination’: George Eliot’s feeling for the Jews
‘Various combinations of common likeness’: fellow feeling and the ethics of form
‘Absorbing enthusiasm’: education and identity
‘A people with oriental sunlight in their blood’: Jewish nationalism
Chapter 3 – ‘A fragment of the eternal truth’: futurity and race for Amy Levy
‘That elaborate misconception’: debating Deronda with George Eliot and Henry James
‘Startling with excess of truth’: futurity and poetic unfitness
‘A strange yearning affection’: the racial romance of Reuben Sachs
Conclusion – Esther and Judith in London
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | New Directions in Religion and Literature |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 249 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-350-03037-6 / 1350030376 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-03037-4 / 9781350030374 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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