Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity

Zusatztext "Carefully researched and clearly written, this book will redefine the field. It brings to light a treasure trove of little known novels, recasting what we thought we knew about German-Jewish identity, and the German-Jewish literary sphere, in the nineteenth century by showing how Jews from across the ideological spectrum eagerly produced and consumed popular literature that promoted Jewish identity to an expanding middle class." Informationen zum Autor Jonathan M. Hess is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity (2002) and Reconstituting the Body Politic (1999). Klappentext This book opens our eyes to the vast corpus of popular fiction written by Jews for Jews in nineteenth-century Germany, discovering a tradition of Jewish literature that is in many ways still with us today. Zusammenfassung This book opens our eyes to the vast corpus of popular fiction written by Jews for Jews in nineteenth-century Germany, discovering a tradition of Jewish literature that is in many ways still with us today.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan M. Hess, Jonathan Hess, Jonathan M Hess
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 12.03.2010
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures
• EAN: 9780804761222
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6122-2
• Pages: 280
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German; LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish; Literature - Classics / Criticism