The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer : Romance and Reform in Victorian England / / Michael Galchinsky

• Autore: Galchinsky Michael
• Pubblicazione: Wayne State University Press, 2018; Detroit : , : Wayne State University Press, , 1996; ©1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Disciplina: 823/.8099287/089924
• Soggetto topico: Jews in literature; Judaism in literature; Jewish women in literature; Judaism and literature - Great Britain; Jews - Great Britain - History - 19th century; Jewish women - Great Britain - Intellectual life; Judaism - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English literature - 19th century - History and criticism; English literature - Women authors - History and criticism; Women and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century; English literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-264) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Approach to Modern Jewish Literary History -- The Development of the Victorian Jewish Public Sphere -- Five Ways to Make Anglo-Jewish Literary History Disappear -- Gendering Modern Anglo-Jewish History -- The Origin of Jewish Women Writers' Genres -- 1. Walter Scott and the Conversionists -- Speaking the Jew -- Forming the Heroine of Romance -- 2. The "New Woman" and the Emergence of the Modern Jewish Man -- Separate Spheres: Traditionalists -- Male Champions: Reformers -- Censorship -- Romancing the Jewish Man: The Case of the Disraelis -- Midrash -- Matthias Levy's The Hasty Marriage -- From Within and Without -- 3. Marion and Celia Moss: Transformations of "the Jewess" -- 4. Grace Aguilar: "The Moral Governess of the Hebrew Family" -- The Veil and the Spirit -- Sui Generis -- Selfless Ambition -- Rewards and Punishments -- The Rich, the Middle Class, and the "Cheap" -- Legacy -- Epilogue: Anna Maria Goldsmid and the Limits of History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer analyzes this critical but forgotten period in the development of Jewish women's writing in relation to Victorian literary history, women's cultural history, and Jewish cultural history. Michael Galchinsky demonstrates that these women writers were the most widely recognized spokespersons for the haskalah. Their romances, some of which sold as well as novels by Dickens, argued for Jew's emancipation in the Victorian world and women's emancipation in the Jewish world.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer
• ISBN: 9780814344453; 0814344453
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524708103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II