Jewish Feeling
Difference and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Jewish Women's Writing
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4725-8981-1
- EAN: 9781472589811
- Produktnummer: 19553789
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 208 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'555 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
'Richa Dwor is an Instructor in the English Department at Douglas College, Canada.
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