ISBN:
0810127172
,
9780810127173
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 267 S.
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2010
DDC:
809.88924
Keywords:
Eliot, George
;
Herzl, Theodor
;
Eliot, George, 1819-1880
;
Daniel Deronda
;
Herzl, Theodor, 1860-1904
;
Altneuland
;
Jewish literature
;
19th century
;
History and criticism
;
Jewish literature
;
20th century
;
History and criticism
;
Hebrew literature, Modern
;
History and criticism
;
Zionism in literature
;
Masculinity in literature
;
Gender identity in literature
;
Jews
;
Identity
;
Eliot, George 1819-1880 Daniel Deronda
;
Juden
;
Nationenbildung
Abstract:
Introduction: Man-Jew-woman -- Jewish men, universal women: novel, nation, and creation in Daniel Deronda -- Jews, modernity, and the end of the European bildungsroman -- On woman and nation in the late nineteenth century -- "Who taught this foreign woman about the ways and lives of the Jews?": George Eliot and Hebrew renaissance -- Fin-de-siècle imagi-nation of a liberal public sphere in Palestine -- Herzl's old new land -- The tragedy of Zionism -- Nationhood and the birth of Jewish tragedy at the fin de siècle: a quick overview -- Kishinev and the making of a Jewish tragedy -- "Nietzsche: I want to become one" -- Masculinity, tragedy, and the nation-state -- An autobiographical postlude: woman, tragedy, and the making of the universal Jew
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Man-Jew-woman -- Jewish men, universal women: novel, nation, and creation in Daniel Deronda -- Jews, modernity, and the end of the European bildungsroman -- On woman and nation in the late nineteenth century -- "Who taught this foreign woman about the ways and lives of the Jews?": George Eliot and Hebrew renaissance -- Fin-de-siècle imagi-nation of a liberal public sphere in Palestine -- Herzl's old new land -- The tragedy of Zionism -- Nationhood and the birth of Jewish tragedy at the fin de siècle: a quick overview -- Kishinev and the making of a Jewish tragedy -- "Nietzsche: I want to become one" -- Masculinity, tragedy, and the nation-state -- An autobiographical postlude: woman, tragedy, and the making of the universal Jew.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
