Richa Dwor's illuminating study ... deftly combines philosophy, theology and literature to demonstrate a new category of affect - both Midrashic and secular - manifest in the realm of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish female writing.
Times Literary Supplement
Although studies of Jews in British literature and culture are plentiful, studies devoted to early Anglo-Jewish authors are extremely rare. ... Dwor ... Read moredoes a considerable service in adding to the current scholarship on Aguilar and Levy, who have both enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past two decades. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Anglo-Jewish literature and culture, Jewish women writers, and Victorian fiction and religion more generally.
Religion and the Arts
Richa Dwor's Jewish Feeling is an important contribution to studies of 19th-century Anglo-Jewish women as writers and of Jews as subjects in their work. ... Dwor's compelling thesis is that 19th-century Jewish women writers, specifically in fiction and poetry, developed a midrashic technique of persuading through affect - developing and appealing to affectus - as they evoked Jewish difference and elaborated visions for the future of Jews in Britain. ... Jewish Feeling grapples well with its potentially slippery topic. Dwor draws amply on recent criticism and theory, placing her study within the important and growing fields of Anglo-Jewish literary and cultural criticism. This book makes significant contributions to both.
Literature and History
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