Format:
1 online resource (292 pages)
ISBN:
9781139147835
Series Statement:
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture v.35
Content:
Examines Anglo-Jewish and Christian women poets, and the connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- BEHOLD HOW WE PREACH": WOMEN'S RELIGIOUS POETRY AND CONTRADICTIONS OF LITERARY HISTORY -- FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM AND THE RELIGION ''PROBLEM'': CHRISTINA ROSSETTI AS TEST-CASE -- RELIGION AS A "MARK OF CULTURAL DIFFERENCE": NEW QUESTIONS FOR WOMEN'S POETRY -- CONQUERORS AND EXILES: JEWISH DIFFERENCE IN THE "CONTACT ZONE" OF VICTORIAN POETICS -- CHAPTER 2 "Sweet singers of Israel": gendered and Jewish otherness in Victorian poetics -- INSUFFICIENT AND PARTIAL": JEWISH PROPHETS, WOMEN POETS, AND THE TYPOLOGICAL PARADIGM -- TOSSED TO AND FRO": GENDERED CROSSINGS IN PROPHETIC/POETIC IDENTITY -- RECONFIGURING THE HEART: POETRY AS THEOLOGY -- THE SWEET SINGERS OF ISRAEL: JEWISHNESS IN VICTORIAN POETICS -- CHAPTER 3 Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the "Hebraic monster" -- HEBREW ROOTS ENOUGH…TO FRIGHTEN": THE DOUBLE EDGE OF HEBRAIC KNOWLEDGE -- BARRETT BROWNING'S HEBRAIC DISPLAY: THE AUTHORITY OF HEBREW LANGUAGE -- KISSING MOSES/KISSING CHRIST: THE JUDAIZING OF THE VIRGIN MARY -- MARRYING OFF MIRIAM: CHRISTIAN CONVERSION IN AURORA LEIGH -- CHAPTER 4 Christina Rossetti and the Hebraic goblins of the Jewish Scriptures -- A LINE DRAWN SOMEWHERE": ROSSETTI AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF DIFFERENCE -- MAGNIFY MINE OFFICE": JEWISHNESS AND FEMALENESS IN SEEK AND FIND -- AS A TALE ENDS THAT IS TOLD": ROSSETTI'S DIALOGUE WITH HEBREW PROPHECY -- GOBLIN MARKET: ROSSETTI'S REWRITING OF HEBREW PROPHECY -- IF I MIGHT TAKE MY LIFE SO IN MY HAND": "MONNA INNOMINATA" AND THE HEROIC JEWISH WOMAN -- CHAPTER 5 "Judaism rightly reverenced": Grace Aguilar's theological poetics -- INTRODUCTION: FROM ''PECULIAR'' TO ''ELOQUENT'': POETRY AS THEOLOGICAL STRATEGY -- BACKGROUNDS: BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521811125
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521811125
Additional Edition:
Print version Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England : Jewish Identity and Christian Culture
Language:
English
URL:
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