Grace Aguilar: Selected Writings - Couverture souple

Aguilar, Grace

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1551113775 ISBN 13 : 9781551113777

Editeur : Broadview Press, 2003

Synopsis

For the first time in over a century, this edition makes available the work of the most important Jewish writer in early and mid-Victorian Britain. Grace Aguilar (1816-1847) broke new literary ground by writing from the unique perspective of an Anglo-Jewish woman. Aguilar’s writing responds to English representations of Jews and women by writers such as Felicia Hemans, Maria Edgeworth, Sir Walter Scott, and Thomas Macaulay. She both assimilates and alters the genres of historical romance, dramatic monologue, domestic fiction, history, and midrash, among others.

This edition includes Aguilar’s novella The Perez Family in its entirety; the Sephardic historical romance “The Escape,” her Sephardic historical romance, “History of the Jews in England,” the first such history ever written by a Jew; major poems; excerpts from The Women of Israel; and Aguilar’s Frankfurt journal, never before published. Also included are primary source materials such as writings on “the Jewish question” from Aguilar’s non-Jewish contemporaries, tributes and memoirs, and contemporary responses to her work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Michael Galchinsky is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Broadview Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1551113775
• ISBN 13: 9781551113777
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 415
• Éditeur: Galchinsky Michael
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible