Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England : Jewish identity and Christian culture

Resource Information

The work Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England : Jewish identity and Christian culture represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Women's poetry and religion in Victorian England : Jewish identity and Christian culture

Title remainder

Jewish identity and Christian culture

Statement of responsibility

Cynthia Scheinberg

Creator

• Scheinberg, Cynthia

Subject

• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 -- Religion
• Christian poetry, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
• English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• English poetry -- Jewish authors | History and criticism
• English poetry -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Jewish poetry -- History and criticism
• Aguilar, Grace, 1816-1847 -- Religion
• Jews in literature
• Judaism and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Levy, Amy, 1861-1889 -- Religion
• Religious poetry, English -- History and criticism
• Rossetti, Christina Georgina, 1830-1894 -- Religion
• Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Jewish women -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life

Language

eng

Summary

"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 women poets in Victorian England of both Jewish and non-Jewish backgrounds had deep interests in the Jewish scriptures, and that they often used images and texts from Judaism in their poetry. 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. Broadly interdisciplinary, the book's methodology calls on studies in poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little-read Anglo-Jewish primary sources."--BOOK JACKET

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Series volume

35.