Synopses & Reviews
Examines Anglo-Jewish and Christian women poets, and the connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity.
About the Author
Cynthia Scheinberg is Associate Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California. She has published articles in Victorian Studies, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorian Poetry.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. 'Sweet singers of Israel': gendered and Jewish otherness in Victorian poetics; 3. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the 'Hebraic monster';4. Christina Rossetti and the Hebraic goblins of the Jewish scriptures; 5. 'Judaism rightly reverenced': Grace Aguilar's theological poetics; 6. Amy Levy and the accents of minor(ity) poetry; Notes.