ISBN:
1472589793
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9781472589798
Language:
English
Pages:
VIII, 197 S.
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2015
Series Statement:
New directions in religion and literature
DDC:
820.9/382
Keywords:
Aguilar, Grace Criticism and interpretation
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Levy, Amy Criticism and interpretation
;
Eliot, George Criticism and interpretation
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Jewish literature History and criticism 19th century
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Jewish literature Women authors
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History and criticism
;
Affect (Psychology) in literature
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Affect (Psychology) Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Judaism and literature History 19th century
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Midrash Influence
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English literature Jewish authors
;
History and criticism
;
English literature Women authors
;
History and criticism
;
English literature History and criticism 19th century
;
Jüdische Literatur
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Autorin
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Englisch
;
Affekt
;
Gefühl
;
Jüdische Literatur
;
Frauenliteratur
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Englisch
;
Affekt
;
Gefühl
;
Aguilar, Grace 1816-1847
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Eliot, George 1819-1880
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Levy, Amy 1861-1889
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Jüdische Literatur
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Englisch
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Englisch
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Roman
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Jüdin
;
Denken
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Aguilar, Grace 1816-1847
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Levy, Amy 1861-1889
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Eliot, George 1819-1880
Abstract:
"Jewish Feeling brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts engage affect in a distinctly Jewish way. The book thus emphasises the theological function of literature and also the new opportunities afforded by nineteenth-century literary forms for Jewish women's theological expression. 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"--Back cover
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