Amy Levy : critical essays / edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hetherington, Naomi, 1973- editor.

Valman, Nadia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Women--England--London--Intellectual life.

Women.

Levy, Amy, 1861-1889--Criticism and interpretation.

Levy, Amy.

Levy, Amy, 1861-1889--Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2010]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence, she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history, women's poetry and fiction, and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social, intellectual

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1: "We Are Photographers, Not Mountebanks!"; Chapter 2: Why Wasn't Amy Levy More of a Socialist?; Chapter 3: Between Two Stools; Chapter 4: Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess; Chapter 5: "Such Are Not Woman's Thoughts"; Chapter 6: "Mongrel Words"; Chapter 7: Passing in the City; Chapter 8: "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"?; Chapter 9: Verse or Vitality?; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780821413302

0821413309

9780821443071

0821443070

OCLC:

794698910