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Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England : Jewish identity and Christian culture /

Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scheinberg, Cynthia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Series:Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 35.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Sweet singers of Israel": gendered and Jewish otherness in Victorian poetics
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the "Hebraic monster"
  • Christina Rossetti and the Hebraic goblins of the Jewish Scriptures
  • "Judaism rightly reverenced": Grace Aguilar's theological poetics
  • Amy Levy and the accents of minor(ity) poetry.