Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England Jewish Identity and Christian Culture |
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| Author:
| Scheinberg, Cynthia |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-09983-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $42.99 |
Book Description:
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Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Broadly interdisciplinary, the book's methodology calls on studies in poetics, religious studies, feminist literary...
More DescriptionVictorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Broadly interdisciplinary, the book's methodology calls on studies in poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.