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Amy Levy : Critical Essays.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Victorian StudiesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (258 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821443071
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Amy LevyDDC classification:
  • 828/.809
LOC classification:
  • PR4886.L25 -- Z56 2010eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 "We Are Photographers, Not Mountebanks!": Spectacle, Commercial Space, and the New Public Woman -- 2 Why Wasn't Amy Levy More of a Socialist? Levy, Clementina Black, and Liza of Lambeth -- 3 Between Two Stools: Exclusion and Unfitness in Amy Levy's Short Stories -- 4 Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess -- 5 "Such Are Not Woman's Thoughts": Amy Levy's "Xantippe" and "Medea" -- 6 "Mongrel Words": Amy Levy's Jewish Vulgarity -- 7 Passing in the City: The Liminal Spaces of Amy Levy's Late Work -- 8 "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"? Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill, and the Postemancipation Jewish Novel -- 9 Verse or Vitality? Biological Economies and the New Woman Poet -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation.
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Intro -- Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 "We Are Photographers, Not Mountebanks!": Spectacle, Commercial Space, and the New Public Woman -- 2 Why Wasn't Amy Levy More of a Socialist? Levy, Clementina Black, and Liza of Lambeth -- 3 Between Two Stools: Exclusion and Unfitness in Amy Levy's Short Stories -- 4 Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess -- 5 "Such Are Not Woman's Thoughts": Amy Levy's "Xantippe" and "Medea" -- 6 "Mongrel Words": Amy Levy's Jewish Vulgarity -- 7 Passing in the City: The Liminal Spaces of Amy Levy's Late Work -- 8 "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"? Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill, and the Postemancipation Jewish Novel -- 9 Verse or Vitality? Biological Economies and the New Woman Poet -- Afterword -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation.

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