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Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Scheinberg, Cynthia

2002,2009

Overview

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. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: 1806-1861 / 1816-1847 / 1830-1894 / 1861-1889 / 19th century / Aguilar, Grace / Aguilar, Grace, 1816-1847 -- Religion / Browning, Elizabeth Barrett / Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Religion / Christian poetry, English / Christian poetry, English -- History and criticism / Christianity and literature / Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century / England / English poetry / English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism / English poetry -- Jewish authors -- History and crotocism / English poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism / Great Britain / History / History and criticism / Intellectual life / Jewish authors / Jewish poetry / Jewish poetry -- History and criticism / Jewish religious poetry, English / Jewish women / Jews in literature / Judaism and literature / Judaism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century / Levy, Amy / Levy, Amy, 1861-1889 -- Religion / Religion / Religious poetry, English / Religious poetry, English -- History and criticism / Rossetti, Christina Georgina / Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 -- Religion / Women and literature / Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century / Women authors
• ISBN: 9780521811125, 9780521099837, 0521099838, 0521811120