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    Unfit : Jewish degeneration and modernism (2019)
    London : Bloomsbury Publishing | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 9781350098978 , 9781350098954
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 249 pages) , illustrations
    Year of publication: 2019
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Reizbaum, Marilyn, 1953 - Unfit
    DDC: 808.8/0112
    RVK:
    HM 1091
    Keywords: Jews Identity ; Motion pictures and the arts ; Modernism (Aesthetics) ; Degeneration in literature ; Modernism (Literature) ; Jews Intellectual life ; Degeneration Social aspects ; History ; Electronic books ; Juden ; Geistesleben ; Gesellschaft ; Degeneration ; Degeneration ; Literatur ; Fotografie ; Degeneration ; Juden ; Identität ; Geschichte ; Joyce, James 1882-1941 Ulysses ; Barker, Pat 1943- Regeneration
    Abstract: "An obsession with 'degeneration' was a central preoccupation of modernist culture at the start of the 20th century. Less attention has been paid to the fact that many of the key thinkers in 'degeneration theory' - including Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau, and Magnus Hirschfeld - were Jewish. Unfit: Jewish Degeneration and Modernism is the first in-depth study of the Jewish cultural roots of this strand of modernist thought and its legacies for modernist and contemporary culture. Marilyn Reizbaum explores how literary works from Bram Stoker's Dracula, through James Joyce's Ulysses to Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, the crime movies of Mervyn LeRoy, and the photography of Claude Cahun and Adi Nes manifest engagements with ideas of degeneration across the arts of the 20th century. This is a major new study that sheds new light on modernist thought, art and culture"--Bloomsbury Collections
    Abstract: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Avatars -- 2. Bad seeds: Mervyn LeRoy's American crime -- 3. Fitness movements: literary degeneration and Jewish muscle in Joyce's -- 4. Ulysses and Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy -- 5. Sexology's photoshop -- Coda: Otto Weininger and the Jewish joke -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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    DOI: 10.5040/9781350098978
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Potsdam University
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    Jewish feeling : difference and affect in nineteenth-century Jewish women's writing (2015)
    London [u.a.] : Bloomsbury Acad.
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    ISBN: 9781474257510
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    Year of publication: 2015
    Series Statement: New directions in religion and literature
    RVK:
    HL 1139
    RVK:
    HL 1101
    Keywords: Authors, English ; Jewish women authors ; Jüdische Literatur ; Englisch ; Roman ; Jüdin ; Denken ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
    DOI: 10.5040/9781474257510
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    Potsdam University
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