The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

Valman, Nadia

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“…Constructions of “the Jew” in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations 1875–1945 . Cambridge University Press; Valman N. (2007). The Jewess in Nineteenth‐Century British Literary Culture .…”

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Tracing social connections in the Victorian Jewish Writers Project

Katzir,

Katzir

2023

Literature Compass

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In March 2022, we launched the Victorian Jewish Writers Project (VJWP), a digital collection of texts written by nineteenth‐century British Jews accompanied by short articles on significant authors, places, and events of the Anglo‐Jewish world. When we began building the collection in 2021, our conceptual framework was clear: Victorian Jewry is underrepresented both in Jewish Studies and Victorian Studies, so we would create a resource to supply primary texts and some analytical information to anyone interested. Despite our familiarity with archive theory, we considered our role in the project as little more than what Latour calls intermediaries, or “mere informants.” Yet, the process of digitizing and publicizing a canon, particularly a canon tied to a cultural heritage, is an inherently social act, and in this article we will explore the modes of social engagement inherent in creating and maintaining digital archives. In particular, we make use of Latour’s actor‐network theory to understand the relationships forged by archives in digital spaces.

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Aguilar, Grace

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The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

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Living in Britain as a Sephardic Jew, Grace Aguilar constantly negotiated between her English and Jewish identities in her works and life. Her writing in various genres provided a vivid early Victorian view of the way a Jewish woman, outside mainstream Victorian culture, viewed both the Christian and Jewish communities of her time and in history. Although many of her finest works addressed Jewish audiences and subjects, she also wrote domestic fiction on secular subjects and appealed to Christian readers as well a Jewish audience. Her poetry, published throughout her career, reveals a keen appreciation and influence of Romantic poetry, as well as knowledge of Hebrew Scriptures. Aguilar's acclaim and reputation in the United States with Jewish audiences grew considerably after she published The Spirit of Judaism and The Women of Israel ; her novella, The Perez Family , was widely read by the Jewish communities in both Britain and the United States, but Aguilar regretted that its realistic and sympathetic depiction of a Jewish family did not reach a wider audience.

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2015

The Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature

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Victorian literature turned with surprising frequency and significance to representations of Jews and Jewishness. Literature was a major source of Victorians’ ideas of and debates about Jews, debates Anglo‐Jewish writers increasingly joined as the century progressed. Depictions of Jews as avaricious Shylocks, influenced by long‐standing anti‐Semitic narratives, appeared in Victorian plays, novels, and comic poems. But Victorian literature also depicted Jews in more complex and positive ways, drawing on ideas about special Judeo‐Christian connections and “Jewish” creativity. Because Victorian Jewishness shifted between religion, race, culture, and nation, it allowed writers to consider the way similar categories shaped Victorian Englishness. Nineteenth‐century novels, with their attention to domestic and psychological interiority, were especially adept at exploring whether Jewishness and Englishness were identities that could be learned, converted to, or only inherited. Fictional Jews thus facilitated the examination of the fiction of the nation and the workings of Victorian novels themselves.

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The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

Cited by 103 publications

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Tracing social connections in the Victorian Jewish Writers Project

Tracing social connections in the Victorian Jewish Writers Project

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