The marriage plot : or, how Jews fell in love with love, and with literature /

For nineteenth-century Eastern European Jews, modernization entailed the abandonment of arranged marriage in favor of the "love match." Romantic novels taught Jewish readers the rules of romance and the choreography of courtship. But because these new conceptions of romance were rooted in...

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Hlavní autor: Seidman, Naomi (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2016]
Edice:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1242645
Obsah:
  • Introduction : plotting Jewish marriage
  • A sentimental education
  • Matchmaking and modernity
  • Pride and pedigree
  • The choreography of courtship
  • In-laws and outlaws
  • Sex and segregation
  • After marriage, an afterword.