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| 41. |  | Title: Caught in the act: theatricality in the nineteenth-century English novel  Author: Litvak, Joseph Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: Litvak demonstrates that private experience in the novels of Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Eliot, and James is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities. He suggests that the theatricality which pervades these novels enforces social norms while introdu . . . [more] Matches in book (106): ...written in the name of the “bad” Jewishness that Eliot’s novel, among other more... Similar Items...alienation of all the negative things Jewishness stands for in the book,” the... ...specificity to the ostensibly “good” Jewishness that is left after the signs... |
| 42. |  | Title: War, institutions, and social change in the Middle East Author: Heydemann, Steven Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Politics | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Postcolonial Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: Few areas of the world have been as profoundly shaped by war as the Middle East in the twentieth century. Despite the prominence of war-making in this region, there has been surprisingly little research investigating the effects of war as a social and political process in the Middle East. To fill th . . . [more] Matches in book (140): ...S. , and Elihu Katz , eds. The Jewishness of Israelis: Responses to the Guttman... Similar Items...example: Liebman and Katz, The Jewishness of Israelis: Responses to the Guttman... ...theirs in the same way that it was the Jews’. While I will concentrate below on... |
| 43. |  | Title: Appeasement or resistance and other essays on New Testament Judaism Author: Daube, David Published: University of California Press, 1987 Subjects: Religion Matches in book (78): ...The Old Testament in the New: A Jewish Perspective... Similar Items...Life 2.9 115 Against Apion 2.8.106 48 Jewish War 2.14.8.301 ff.... ...80 7.6.6.218 53 Jewish Antiquities 2.3.3.15 116 2.3.4.38 97 2.7.1.186 f. 98... |
| 44. |  | Title: Nobody's story: the vanishing acts of women writers in the marketplace, 1670-1820 Author: Gallagher, Catherine Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | European History Publisher's Description: Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, Catherine Gallagher reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel. The "nobodies" of her title are not ignored, . . . [more] Matches in book (112): ...Tragedie of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry, The , 23 -24, 24 n38, 46 Trager,... Similar Items...strong conception of the pain the Jewess was feeling, and my inverted sympathy,... ...gratuitously took on the role of "the Jewess" to align her fortunes with her... |
| 45. |  | Title: Radicalism and reverence: the political thought of Gerrard Winstanley Author: Shulman, George M Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: Politics | European History Publisher's Description: One of the most undeservedly neglected political theorists of the seventeenth century, Gerrard Winstanley is a fascinating figure who wrote broadly and creatively on issues that appear surprisingly modern to his present-day readers. His theoretical approach to the English revolution knit together su . . . [more] Matches in book (101): ...Winstanley, Marx, and "The Jewish Question"... Similar Items...115 -19, 132 , 136 , 207 , 240 Jewishness, meaning of in Winstanley, 112 Jews... ...Square Press, 1967. Arendt, Hanna. The Jew as Pariah . New York: Grove Press,... |
| 46. |  | Title: Wordsworth and the cultivation of women Author: Page, Judith W 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | English Literature | Poetry | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Focusing on the poems of Wordsworth's "Great Decade," feminist critics have tended to see Wordsworth as an exploiter of women and "feminine" perspectives. In this original and provocative book, Judith Page examines works from throughout Wordsworth's long career to offer a more nuanced feminist accou . . . [more] Matches in book (40): ...Writing, Friendship, Love—The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh... Similar Items...Family" (Wordsworth), 151 -52, 163 Jewsbury, Maria Jane, 119 , 129 , 131 , 142 -... ...of the letters other than those to Jewsbury are from the unpublished collection... |
| 47. |  | Title: On the margins of modernism: decentering literary dynamics Author: Kronfeld, Chana Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Literature | Comparative Literature | Language and Linguistics | Literary Theory and Criticism | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Modernism valorizes the marginal, the exile, the "other" - yet we tend to use writing from the most commonly read European languages (English, French, German) as examples of this marginality. Chana Kronfeld counters these dominant models of marginality by looking instead at modernist poetry written . . . [more] Matches in book (92): ...Lvov], the Galician capital of Hasidic Jewry, he describes his anguish in the... Similar Items...references to the destruction of European Jewry become undeniable. But the last... ...Press. Alcalay, Ammiel. 1993. After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture.... |
| 48. |  | Title: Wondrous in his saints: counter-Reformation propaganda in Bavaria Author: Soergel, Philip M Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | European History | Christianity | Medieval History Publisher's Description: At the close of the sixteenth century, despite Protestant attempts to discourage popular devotion to saints and shrines, the Roman Church in Bavaria initiated a propagandistic campaign through the publishing of pilgrimage books and pamphlets. Philip Soergel's cogent exploration of this little-known . . . [more] Matches in book (96): ...triumph and presented him with a jeweled bishop's staff to commemorate his... Similar Items...French crown. Part of a collection of jewels and regalia known as the "French... ...that are "framed with precious jewels and gems," a practice also anticipated by... |
| 49. |  | Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Matches in book (118): ...Jews: defloration of, 103 -4 and prostitute marriages, 159 prostitution and,... Similar Items...Where she found chandeliers and gold jewels, Where the heart spills over its ... ...no. 341 (December 13, 1902), for report about Jews involved in sending women to... |
| 50. |  | Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Art | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Matches in book (77): ...maintained on stipends at court. 110 Jeweled weapons and musical instruments... Similar Items...of the lavish display of gold and jeweled fabrics and trappings rivals that of... ...and to public baths and to display jewelry in public. Most of these measure are... |
| 51. |  | Title: Nerves and narratives: a cultural history of hysteria in nineteenth-century British prose Author: Logan, Peter Melville 1951- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | History | History and Philosophy of Science | Literary Theory and Criticism | Victorian History | English Literature | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: The British middle class of the early nineteenth century was defined by its nervous complaints - hysteria, hypochondria, vapours, melancholia, and other maladies. Peter Melville Logan explores the link between medical theories of nervous physiology and narrative issues central to the literary writin . . . [more] Matches in book (86): ...NY: Cornell University Press, 1981. Jewson, N. D . Medical Knowledge and the... Similar Items...the medical profession, see N. D. Jewson, “Medical Knowledge and the Patronage... ...home leaves the question of his Jewishness and the crowd’s anti-Semitism beside... |
| 52. |  | Title: The making of the English middle class: business, society, and family life in London, 1660-1730 Author: Earle, Peter 1937- Published: University of California Press, 1989 Subjects: History Publisher's Description: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from con . . . [more] Matches in book (45): ...jewellery, 15 , 27 , 32 , 36 , 46 -7, 49 , 87 , 114 -15, 119 -20, 130 -1, 172 ,... Similar Items...jewellers,... ...and domestic goods, plate and jewellery (3.3 per cent). The percentages for... |
| 53. |  | Title: The Renaissance Bible: scholarship, sacrifice, and subjectivity Author: Shuger, Debora K 1953- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Literature | Religion | Literary Theory and Criticism | Renaissance History | Christianity | Renaissance Literature Publisher's Description: This is the first book on the Renaissance Bible by an Anglo-American scholar in nearly fifty years. Not confined to a history of exegesis, it is instead a study of Renaissance culture - a culture whose central text was the Bible. Shuger explores, among other topics, the links between late medieval C . . . [more] Matches in book (91): ...shall I now say unto you sinfull Jewes , by whose barbarous fury, and fatall... Similar Items...of Jerusalem and downefall of the Jewes. No sorrow was like their sorrow." 110... ...Tamburlaine, Christ first offers "the Jewes the White-flagge of forgivenesse and... |
| 54. |  | Title: America at century's end Author: Wolfe, Alan 1942- Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: American Studies | Ethnic Studies | Sociology | Urban Studies | Politics | Postcolonial Studies Matches in book (134): ...Immigration Act of 1990 [New York: American Jewish Committee, December 1990]. )... Similar Items...Falwell may be a genuine ally of the Jews. 27. Telephone interview with Rabbi... ...the Russell Sage Foundation working on a study of blacks and Jews in New York.... |
| 55. |  | Title: Critical crossings: the New York intellectuals in postwar America Author: Jumonville, Neil Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | Autobiographies and Biographies | Sociology | Politics | American Studies Publisher's Description: The period immediately following the Second World War was a time, observed Randall Jarrell, when many American writers looked to the art of criticism as the representative act of the intellectual. Rethinking this interval in our culture, Neil Jumonville focuses on the group of writers and thinkers w . . . [more] Matches in book (99): ...Thomas, 6 , 92 , 169 , 174 , 175 Jewish Theological Seminary, 23 , 31 , 194 John... Similar Items...years, Trilling was aware of how his Jewishness set him apart. "Being a Jew," he... ...gentility and trying to suppress his Jewishness. Hook thought those accusations... |
| 56. |  | Title: Symeon the holy fool: Leontius's Life and the late antique city Author: Krueger, Derek Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Religion | Literature | Christianity | Classics | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: This first English translation of Leontius of Neapolis's Life of Symeon the Fool brings to life one of the most colorful of early Christian saints. In this study of a major hagiographer at work, Krueger fleshes out a broad picture of the religious, intellectual, and social environment in which the L . . . [more] Matches in book (75): ...Orient. DS Starr, Joshua . Byzantine Jewry on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (565–... Similar Items...3. See also Joshua Starr, “Byzantine Jewry on the Eve of the Arab Conquest (565–... ...in this period see A. Sharf, “Byzantine Jewry in the Seventh Century,” BZ 48 (... |
| 57. |  | Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992 Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press, 2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Matches in book (72): ...1997 . Zipes, Jack . The Operated Jew: Two Tales of Anti-Semitism. New York :... Similar Items...Five Studies in Policy Making, ed. Jewel Bellush and Stephen M. David . New... ...Five Studies in Policy Making, ed. Jewel Bellush and Stephen M. David . New... |
| 58. |  | Title: Historical destiny and national socialism in Heidegger's "Being and time" Author: Fritsche, Johannes Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Philosophy | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: There has been much debate over the relationship of Heidegger's philosophy - in particular his book Being and Time - to his practical involvement with National Socialism. Yet the question has never been addressed through a comparison of Being and Time with other texts on history and politics written . . . [more] Matches in book (102): ...Wider-klang { echo } in ihrem jeweiligen Heute finden zu können und auch nie... Similar Items...or post-Heideggerians talk about the «JewGreek,» after Derrida did so.... ...as though one can become a «JewGreek» only via carefully studying Heidegger in... |
| 59. |  | Title: A flowering tree: and other oral tales from India A.K. Ramanujan ; edited with a preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes Author: Ramanujan, A. K 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Language and Linguistics | Asian Literature | Folklore and Mythology | South Asia Publisher's Description: This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time . . . [more] Matches in book (56): ...had been taken. The thief had taken the jewelry from his wife and the horse from... Similar Items...a measure of horse gram buy you a jewel? Go now! ” She too knew now that she had... ...beam and tell every passerby, “A jewel, this bull. Look how loving it is! ” He... |
| 60. |  | Title: The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900 Author: Brower, Daniel R Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view o . . . [more] Matches in book (74): ...Jews, 25 , 83 -84, 144 ; migration of, 50 , 65 -66 Johnson, Robert, 69... Similar Items...of Crisis, Year of Hope: Russian Jewry and the Pogroms of 1881-1882. Westport,... ...III, 120 , 122 Anti-Semitism: and Jewish migration, 50 , 83 -84, 144 , 195 ; and... |