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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783124103321

Autore

Scheinberg Cynthia

Titolo

Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England : Jewish identity and Christian culture / / Cynthia Scheinberg [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12522-7

1-280-16108-6

0-511-12021-4

1-139-14783-8

0-511-06441-1

0-511-05808-X

0-511-32965-2

0-511-48490-9

0-511-07287-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 275 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 35

Disciplina

821/.809382

Soggetti

Religious poetry, English - History and criticism

Christianity and literature - England - History - 19th century

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

English poetry - Jewish authors - History and criticism

English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Christian poetry, English - 19th century - History and criticism

Judaism and literature - England - History - 19th century

Jewish women - Great Britain - Intellectual life

Jewish poetry - History and criticism

Jews in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-271) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. ; Introduction -- ; 2. "Sweet singers of Israel": gendered and Jewish otherness in Victorian poetics -- ; 3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the "Hebraic monster" -- ; 4. Christina Rossetti and the Hebraic goblins of



the Jewish Scriptures -- ; 5. "Judaism rightly reverenced": Grace Aguilar's theological poetics -- ; 6. Amy Levy and the accents of minor(ity) poetry.

Sommario/riassunto

Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.