{"product_id":"jewish-feeling-9781350030374","title":"Jewish Feeling","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJewish Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e brings together affect theory and Jewish Studies to trace Jewish difference in literary works by nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish authors. Dwor argues that midrash, a classical rabbinic interpretive form, is a site of Jewish feeling and that literary works underpinned by midrashic concepts engage affect in a distinctly Jewish way. The book thus emphasises the theological function of literature and also the new opportunities afforded by nineteenth-century literary forms for Jewish women's theological expression. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  For authors such as Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) and Amy Levy (1861-1889), feeling is a complex and overlapping category that facilitates the transmission of Jewish ways of thinking into English literary forms. Dwor reads them alongside George Eliot, herself deeply engaged with issues of contemporary Jewish identity. This sheds new light on Eliot by positioning her works in a nexus of Jewish forms and concerns. Ultimately, and despite considerable \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRicha Dwor's illuminating study ... deftly combines philosophy, theology and literature to demonstrate a new category of affect - both Midrashic and secular - manifest in the realm of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish female writing. * Times Literary Supplement *\u003cbr\u003eAlthough studies of Jews in British literature and culture are plentiful, studies devoted to early Anglo-Jewish authors are extremely rare. … Dwor does a considerable service in adding to the current scholarship on Aguilar and Levy, who have both enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past two decades. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Anglo-Jewish literature and culture, Jewish women writers, and Victorian fiction and religion more generally. * Religion and the Arts *\u003cbr\u003eRicha Dwor’s \u003ci\u003eJewish Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to studies of 19th-century Anglo-Jewish women as writers and of Jews as subjects in their work. … Dwor’s compelling thesis is that 19th-century Jewish women writers, specifically in fiction and poetry, developed a midrashic technique of persuading through affect – developing and appealing to affectus – as they evoked Jewish difference and elaborated visions for the future of Jews in Britain. … Jewish Feeling grapples well with its potentially slippery topic. Dwor draws amply on recent criticism and theory, placing her study within the important and growing fields of Anglo-Jewish literary and cultural criticism. This book makes significant contributions to both. * Literature and History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction: Affect and Jewish Feeling \u003c\/b\u003e               What is affect?   What is midrash?      Midrash and affect        \u003cb\u003eChapter 1 – ‘The still undercurrent of deep feeling’: history and nation for Grace Aguilar \u003c\/b\u003e   ‘More than unusually moved’: representing women’s reading   ‘The full gushing tide of rapture’: theorising women’s reading    ‘The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records’ Jewish histories for England’s Jews        \u003cb\u003eChapter 2 – ‘Finer and finer discrimination’: George Eliot’s feeling for the Jews\u003c\/b\u003e   ‘Various combinations of common likeness’: fellow feeling and the ethics of form    ‘Absorbing enthusiasm’: education and identity    ‘A people with oriental sunlight in their blood’: Jewish nationalism         \u003cb\u003eChapter 3 – ‘A fragment of the eternal truth’: futurity and race for Amy Levy\u003c\/b\u003e   ‘That elaborate misconception’: debating \u003ci\u003eDeronda\u003c\/i\u003e with George Eliot and Henry James    ‘Startling with excess of truth’: futurity and poetic unfitness    ‘A strange yearning affection’: the racial romance of \u003ci\u003eReuben Sachs\u003c\/i\u003e        \u003cb\u003eConclusion – Esther and Judith in London  Index \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577898209623,"sku":"9781350030374","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350030374.jpg?v=1746097090","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jewish-feeling-9781350030374","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}