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Title Amy Levy : critical essays / edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2010
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Description 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
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Contents "We are photographers, not mountebanks!" : spectacle, commercial space, and the new public woman -- Why wasn't Amy Levy more of a socialist? : Levy, Clementina Black, and Liza of Lambeth -- Between two stools : exclusion and unfitness in Amy Levy's short stories -- Amy Levy and the literary representation of the Jewess -- "Such are not woman's thoughts" : Amy Levy's "Xantippe" and "Medea" -- "Mongrel words" : Amy Levy's Jewish vulgarity -- Passing in the city : the liminal spaces of Amy Levy's late work -- "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"? : Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill, and the postemancipation Jewish novel -- Verse or vitality? : biological economies and the new woman poet
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
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Levy, Amy, 1861-1889 -- Religion
Levy, Amy, 1861-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Levy, Amy, 1861-1889 fast
Subject Women -- England -- London -- Intellectual life
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
English literature
Religion
Women -- Intellectual life
England -- London
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Valman, Nadia
Hetherington, Naomi, 1973-
LC no. 2009047877
ISBN 9780821443071
0821443070
0821419064
9780821419069