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The origin of the modern Jewish woman writer : romance and reform in Victorian England /
Between 1830 and 1880, the Jewish community flourished in England. During this time, known as haskalah, or the Anglo-Jewish Enlightenment, Jewish women in England became the first Jewish women anywhere to publish novels, histories, periodicals, theological tracts, and conduct manuals. The Origin of...
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[1996]
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: A New Approach to Modern Jewish Literary History; The Development of the Victorian Jewish Public Sphere; Five Ways to Make Anglo-Jewish Literary History Disappear; Gendering Modern Anglo-Jewish History; The Origin of Jewish Women Writers' Genres; 1. Walter Scott and the Conversionists; Speaking the Jew; Forming the Heroine of Romance; 2. The "New Woman" and the Emergence of the Modern Jewish Man; Separate Spheres: Traditionalists; Male Champions: Reformers; Censorship
- Romancing the Jewish Man: The Case of the DisraelisMidrash; Matthias Levy's The Hasty Marriage; From Within and Without; 3. Marion and Celia Moss: Transformations of "the Jewess"; 4. Grace Aguilar: "The Moral Governess of the Hebrew Family"; The Veil and the Spirit; Sui Generis; Selfless Ambition; Rewards and Punishments; The Rich, the Middle Class, and the "Cheap"; Legacy; Epilogue: Anna Maria Goldsmid and the Limits of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index