Amy Levy : critical essays / / edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman

• Pubblicazione: Athens : , : Ohio University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 828/.809
• Soggetto topico: English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Women - England - London - Intellectual life
• Persona (resp. second.): HetheringtonNaomi <1973->; ValmanNadia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: "We Are Photographers, Not Mountebanks!"; Chapter 2: Why Wasn't Amy Levy More of a Socialist?; Chapter 3: Between Two Stools; Chapter 4: Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess; Chapter 5: "Such Are Not Woman's Thoughts"; Chapter 6: "Mongrel Words"; Chapter 7: Passing in the City; Chapter 8: "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"?; Chapter 9: Verse or Vitality?; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women's poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual
• Titolo autorizzato: Amy Levy
• ISBN: 0-8214-4307-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822349403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II