The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature

by Naomi Seidman

Book Overview

For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in the Christian and chivalric traditions, the Jewish embrace of "the love religion" was always partial.

In The Marriage Plot, Naomi Seidman considers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804799679
• ISBN13: 9780804799676
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"