{"product_id":"a-hundred-acres-of-america-the-geography-of-jewish-american-literary-history-9780813589701","title":"A Hundred Acres of America  The Geography of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Michael Hoberman has opened up freshly the pathway in Jewish American writings about the sense of place, how Jewish life in America has come to be and feel at home.\" -- Jules Chametzky * professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; founder and editor of The Massachusetts Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"At once critically imaginative and rigorously methodological, \u003ci\u003eA Hundred Acres of America \u003c\/i\u003eis a genuinely exciting, pathbreaking work of breathtaking historical, geographical, and cultural scope.\" -- Ranen Omer-Sherman * JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hoberman brilliantly revises notions of how quintessentially American landscapes shaped American Jewish writing. Elegantly written and cogently argued, this study unsettles the stories we think we know about Jewish immigration and territorial belonging in America.\" -- Rachel Rubinstein * author of Members of the Tribe: Native America in the Jewish Imagination *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A Hundred Acres \u003c\/i\u003eis a worthy and lucid genealogy of the under-explored Jewish American geographical imagination, presented convincingly as an engagement with as well as departure from certain forms of dominant U.S. spatiality. Hoberman's nimble treatment of key texts captures the Jewish stamp on iconic American places, from 'the frontier' to the city and the 'suburban pastoral' as well as the Americanization of Jewish spaces elsewhere and, importantly, contributes to a shift in Jewish American literary scholarship away from the classic topics of immigration and assimilation toward a multidimensional criticism.\" -- Dalia Kandiyoti * author of Migrant Sites: America, Place, and Diaspora Literatures *\u003cbr\u003e\"The Jewish Preview of Books—December 2018\" by Rachel Scheinerman * The Jewish Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"The book discusses a variety of places important to Americans, including the evolving West of the 19th century, the small towns of the Midwest and 20th-century suburbia. It ends with a landscape that has been significant to the Jewish people for thousands of years: Israel [and] suggests that the works it examines ask questions that aren’t easy to answer — but then asking hard questions is a sign of good literature.\" * Greenfield Reporter *\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hoberman Reads from Book,\" mention in \u003ci\u003eThe Shelburne Falls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWest County Independent\u003c\/i\u003e * The Shelburne Falls\/West County Independent *\u003cbr\u003e\"June 8-9, 2019: Jewish American Journeys: Michael Hoberman’s Books\"\u003cbr\u003e http:\/\/americanstudier.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/june-8-9-2019-jewish-american-journeys.html * American Studies Blog *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hoberman’s study...chal­lenges us to recon­sid­er what the canon of our lit­er­a­ture ought to be in a series of orig­i­nal read­ings of both obscure and major fig­ures whose vision of land­scape — above all sites of mem­o­ry and myth — shaped their vision of Amer­i­ca in rich and strik­ing ways.\" * Jewish Book Council *\u003cbr\u003e\"Carefully chosen, sensitively read, historically contextualized, and situated within the broader currents of American literature....An apt reminder that Jews’ engagement with place has always been fraught and that the places that we take for granted are always in the midst of being imagined and invented, a process that is almost never innocent.\" * Marginalia *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hoberman engages effectively with many important voices in the study of Jewish American literature today. [A] stimulating study that significantly refigures Jewish American literature.\" * American Studies in Scandinavia *\u003cbr\u003e\"The richness of Hoberman’s work is partly a feature of its extensive chronology, which includes 150 years of literary history, and partly due to his careful comparisons that are geographically, literarily, religiously and culturally diverse and bring together an uncommon range of places, authors, texts, and histories. Hoberman offers a fresh perspective on a body of literature.\" * MELUS *\u003cbr\u003e\"Short, smart, and pithy.\" * Shofar *\u003cbr\u003e\"Jews Out West 18th-century Jewish American writers described America’s vastness in lyrical—and liturgical—terms\" by Michael Hoberman * Tablet Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Heterogeneous, well-researched, and well-written.\" * American Jewish History *\u003cbr\u003e\"American Pastorals\" by Michael Hoberman * Tablet Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction.  “A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us”: Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place—1-13\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One.  “In this vestibule of God’s holy temple”: the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862—14-55\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two.  Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910—56-98\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three.  “A rare good fortune to anyone”: Joseph Leiser’s and Edna Ferber’s reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939—99-144\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four.  “The longed for pastoral”: images of exurban exile in Philip Roth’s \u003ci\u003eAmerican Pastoral \u003c\/i\u003e(1997) and Allegra Goodman’s \u003ci\u003eKaaterskill Falls\u003c\/i\u003e (1998)—145-186\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five.  Return to the shtetl: following the “topological turn” in Rebecca Goldstein’s \u003ci\u003eMazel\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer’s \u003ci\u003eEverything is Illuminated \u003c\/i\u003e(2002)—187-227\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six.  Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the “Wild West Bank” frontier: Jon\u003cbr\u003e Papernick’s \u003ci\u003eThe Ascent of Eli Israel \u003c\/i\u003e(2002) and Risa Miller’s \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Heavenly Heights \u003c\/i\u003e(2003)—228-266\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.  Mystical encounters and ordinary places—267-276\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Notes  \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"John Wiley \u0026 Sons","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038424203607,"sku":"9780813589701","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-hundred-acres-of-america-the-geography-of-jewish-american-literary-history-9780813589701","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}