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