Amy Levy: Critical Essays

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 contents Acknowledgments, vii Contributors, ix Introduction Naomi Hetherington and NadiaValman, 1 1 “We Are Photographers, Not Mountebanks!”: Spectacle, Commercial Space, and the New PublicWoman Elizabeth F. Evans, 25 2 WhyWasn’t Amy Levy More of a Socialist? Levy, Clementina Black, and Liza of Lambeth Emma Francis, 47 3 BetweenTwo Stools: Exclusion and UnWtness in Amy Levy’s Short Stories Gail Cunningham, 70 4 Amy Levy and the Literary Representation of the Jewess NadiaValman, 90 5 “Such Are NotWoman’sThoughts”: Amy Levy’s “Xantippe” and “Medea” T. D. Olverson, 110 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. vi contents 6 “MongrelWords”: Amy Levy’s JewishVulgarity Susan David Bernstein, 135 7 Passing in the City:The Liminal Spaces of Amy Levy’s LateWork Alex Goody, 157 8 “A Jewish Robert Elsmere”? Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill, and the Postemancipation Jewish Novel Naomi Hetherington, 180 9 Verse orVitality? Biological Economies and the NewWoman Poet Lyssa Randolph, 198 Afterword Meri-Jane Rochelson, 221 Selected Bibliography, 227 Index, 237 You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this work except as permitted under U.S. copyright law is illegal and injures the author and publisher. ...