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A Hundred Acres of America : The Geography of Jewish American Literary History /
In A Hundred Acres of America: The Geography of Jewish American Literary History, Michael Hoberman introduces cultural geography as an alternative approach to the immigrant model. Cultural geography allows Hoberman to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as important, active members of the...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "A never failing source of interest to us" : Jewish American literature and the sense of place
- "In this vestibule of God's holy temple" : the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862
- Colonial revival in the immigrant city : the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910
- "A rare good fortune to anyone" : Joseph Leiser's and Edna Ferber's reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939
- "The longed for pastoral" : images of exurban exile in Philip Roth's American pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls
- Return to the shtetl : following the "topological turn" in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is illuminated
- Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the "wild West Bank" frontier : Jon Papernick's The ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller's Welcome to heavenly heights
- Mystical encounters and ordinary places.