Amy Levy : critical essays / edited by Naomi Hetherington and Nadia Valman.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

"We are photographers, not mountebanks!" : spectacle, commercial space, and the new public woman -- Why wasn't Amy Levy more of a socialist? : Levy, Clementina Black, and Liza of Lambeth -- Between two stools : exclusion and unfitness in Amy Levy's short stories -- Amy Levy and the literary representation of the Jewess -- "Such are not woman's thoughts" : Amy Levy's "Xantippe" and "Medea" -- "Mongrel words" : Amy Levy's Jewish vulgarity -- Passing in the city : the liminal spaces of Amy Levy's late work -- "A Jewish Robert Elsmere"? : Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill, and the postemancipation Jewish novel -- Verse or vitality? : biological economies and the new woman poet.

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