Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness

by Maren Tova Linett

Book Overview

Modernism, Feminism, and Jewishness explores the aesthetic and political roles performed by Jewish characters in women's fiction between the World Wars. Focusing mainly on British modernism, it argues that female authors enlist a multifaceted vision of Jewishness to help them shape fictions that are thematically daring and formally experimental. Maren Linett analyzes the meanings and motifs that Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Dorothy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521880971
• ISBN13: 9780521880978
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"