BIFOCAL LENSES: MEETING SPACES OF JEWISH-AMERICAN AND "MAINSTREAM" AMERICAN LITERATURE

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dc.contributor.advisorMcDonald, William H||Sawaya, Francesca
dc.creatorRabkin, Orit
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-27T21:37:17Z
dc.date.available2019-04-27T21:37:17Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation critically examines the concept of Jewish-American literary hyphenation, analyzing its historical and theoretical consequences (chapters one and two), then applying the results of that analysis to three pairs of texts: Mary Antin's The Promised Land (1912) and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) (chapter three); Abraham Cahan's The Rise of David Levinsky (1917) and William Dean Howells' The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885) (chapter four); and Anzia Yezierska's Salome of the Tenements (1923) and John Dewey's Democracy and Education (1916) (Chapter five). My thesis is that Jewish-American writers working at the turn of the twentieth century negotiated a space for themselves inside of the American literary mainstream and that their reception currently continues to be defined by confining systems of literary hyphenation.
dc.format.extent262 pages
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dc.identifier99351927302042
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/319177
dc.languageen_US
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dc.subjectAmerican literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism
dc.subjectAmerican literature--19th century--History and criticism
dc.subjectAmerican literature--20th century--History and criticism
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.
dc.titleBIFOCAL LENSES: MEETING SPACES OF JEWISH-AMERICAN AND "MAINSTREAM" AMERICAN LITERATURE
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ou.groupCollege of Arts and Sciences::Department of English

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