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Jewish Feeling - Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,132
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Jewish Feeling - Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (Hardcover): Richa Dwor

Jewish Feeling - Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing (Hardcover)

Richa Dwor

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

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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.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
Release date: October 2015
Authors: Richa Dwor
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-1-4725-8979-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Jewish studies
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN: 1-4725-8979-3
Barcode: 9781472589798

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