Hundred Acres of America
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Hundred Acres of America
The Geography of Jewish American Literary History
Hoberman, Michael
Rutgers University Press
12/2018
198
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Inglês
9780813589701
15 a 20 dias
415
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Contents
Preface
Introduction. "A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us": Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place-1-13
Chapter One. "In this vestibule of God's holy temple": the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862-14-55
Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910-56-98
Chapter Three. "A rare good fortune to anyone": Joseph Leiser's and Edna Ferber's reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939-99-144
Chapter Four. "The longed for pastoral": images of exurban exile in Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls (1998)-145-186
Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the "topological turn" in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002)-187-227
Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the "Wild West Bank" frontier: Jon
Papernick's The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller's Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)-228-266
Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places-267-276
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Preface
Introduction. "A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us": Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place-1-13
Chapter One. "In this vestibule of God's holy temple": the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862-14-55
Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910-56-98
Chapter Three. "A rare good fortune to anyone": Joseph Leiser's and Edna Ferber's reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939-99-144
Chapter Four. "The longed for pastoral": images of exurban exile in Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls (1998)-145-186
Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the "topological turn" in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002)-187-227
Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the "Wild West Bank" frontier: Jon
Papernick's The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller's Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)-228-266
Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places-267-276
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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Jewish; America; literature; literary; history; immigrant; immigrant model; writers; geography
Contents
Preface
Introduction. "A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us": Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place-1-13
Chapter One. "In this vestibule of God's holy temple": the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862-14-55
Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910-56-98
Chapter Three. "A rare good fortune to anyone": Joseph Leiser's and Edna Ferber's reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939-99-144
Chapter Four. "The longed for pastoral": images of exurban exile in Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls (1998)-145-186
Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the "topological turn" in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002)-187-227
Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the "Wild West Bank" frontier: Jon
Papernick's The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller's Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)-228-266
Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places-267-276
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
Preface
Introduction. "A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us": Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place-1-13
Chapter One. "In this vestibule of God's holy temple": the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862-14-55
Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910-56-98
Chapter Three. "A rare good fortune to anyone": Joseph Leiser's and Edna Ferber's reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939-99-144
Chapter Four. "The longed for pastoral": images of exurban exile in Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls (1998)-145-186
Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the "topological turn" in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002)-187-227
Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the "Wild West Bank" frontier: Jon
Papernick's The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller's Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)-228-266
Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places-267-276
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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