03856nam 2200721 450 991081542750332120230808193820.00-8047-9962-810.1515/9780804799621(CKB)3710000000731305(SSID)ssj0001681421(PQKBManifestationID)16507034(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001681421(PQKBWorkID)15036723(PQKB)10179926(PQKBManifestationID)16507834(PQKB)20873812(MiAaPQ)EBC4558537(DE-B1597)563633(DE-B1597)9780804799621(Au-PeEL)EBL4558537(CaPaEBR)ebr11224372(OCoLC)952247938(OCoLC)1198930064(EXLCZ)99371000000073130520160726h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe marriage plot or how Jews fell in love with love, and literature / Naomi Seidman. /Naomi SeidmanStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (368 pages)Stanford Studies in Jewish History and CultureIncludes index.0-8047-9967-9 0-8047-9843-5 Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --Introduction: Plotting Jewish Marriage --1. A Sentimental Education --2. Matchmaking and Modernity --3. Pride and Pedigree --4. The Choreography of Courtship --5. In-Laws and Outlaws --6. Sex and Segregation --Afterword: After Marriage --Notes --Index --STANFORD STUDIES IN JEWISH HISTORY AND CULTUREFor nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrace of "the love religion" was always partial. In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman considers the evolution of Jewish love and marriage though the literature that provided Jews with a sentimental education, highlighting a persistent ambivalence in the Jewish adoption of European romantic ideologies. Nineteenth-century Hebrew and Yiddish literature tempered romantic love with the claims of family and community, and treated the rules of gender complementarity as comedic fodder. Twentieth-century Jewish writers turned back to tradition, finding pleasures in matchmaking, intergenerational ties, and sexual segregation. In the modern Jewish voices of Sigmund Freud, Erica Jong, Philip Roth, and Tony Kushner, the Jewish heretical challenge to the European romantic sublime has become the central sexual ideology of our time.Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.Jewish literature20th centuryHistory and criticismJewish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismJewish marriage customs and ritesHistoryMarriage customs and rites in literatureLove in literatureSex in literatureJewish literatureHistory and criticism.Jewish literatureHistory and criticism.Jewish marriage customs and ritesHistory.Marriage customs and rites in literature.Love in literature.Sex in literature.809.88924Seidman Naomi1115411MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815427503321The marriage plot3981825UNINA