Pre-Owned Amy Levy: Critical Essays (Paperback)

Amy Levy has risen to prominence in recent years as one of the most innovative and perplexing writers of her generation. Embraced by feminist scholars for her radical experimentation with queer poetic voice and her witty journalistic pieces on female independence she remains controversial for her representations of London Jewry that draw unmistakably on contemporary antisemitic discourse. Amy Levy: Critical Essays brings together scholars working in the fields of Victorian cultural history women s poetry and fiction and the history of Anglo-Jewry. The essays trace the social intellectual and political contexts of Levy s writing and its contemporary reception. Working from close analyses of Levy s texts the collection aims to rethink her engagement with Jewish identity to consider her literary and political identifications to assess her representations of modern consumer society and popular culture and to place her life and work within late-Victorian cultural debate. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students offering both a comprehensive literature review of scholarship-to-date and a range of new critical perspectives. Contributors: Susan David Bernstein University of Wisconsin-Madison Gail Cunningham Kingston University Elizabeth F. Evans Pennslyvania State University-DuBois Emma Francis Warwick University Alex Goody Oxford Brookes University T. D. Olverson University of Newcastle upon Tyne Lyssa Randolph University of Wales Newport Meri-Jane Rochelson Florida International University