Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture
Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia 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. Broadly interdisciplinary, the book's methodology relates to studies in poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little-known Anglo-Jewish primary sources.
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture
Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia 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. Broadly interdisciplinary, the book's methodology relates to studies in poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little-known Anglo-Jewish primary sources.
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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

by Cynthia Scheinberg
Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture

by Cynthia Scheinberg

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Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia 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. Broadly interdisciplinary, the book's methodology relates to studies in poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little-known Anglo-Jewish primary sources.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521811125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 05/30/2002
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture , #35
Pages: 292
Product dimensions: 6.26(w) x 9.29(h) x 0.83(d)
Lexile: 1660L (what's this?)

About the Author

Cynthia Scheinberg is Associate Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California. She has published articles in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Poetry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. 'Sweet singers of Israel': gendered and Jewish otherness in Victorian poetics; 3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the 'Hebraic monster'; 4. Christina Rossetti and the Hebraic goblins of the Jewish scriptures; 5. 'Judaism rightly reverenced': Grace Aguilar's theological poetics; 6. Amy Levy and the accents of minor(ity) poetry; Notes.
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