Byron and the Jews Contributor(s): Spector, Sheila A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814334423 ISBN-13: 9780814334423 Publisher: Wayne State University Press OUR PRICE: $64.34 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Eastern European (see Also Russian & Former Soviet Union) |
Dewey: 821.7 |
LCCN: 2009049309 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Despite their religious and geographic differences, the British poet Lord Byron shared certain attitudes about politics, institutionalized religion, and individual identity that made him very popular with Jewish readers. In Byron and the Jews, author Sheila A. Spector investigates why, of all the British Romantic poets, Byron is the most frequently translated into Hebrew and Yiddish and how Jews used translations of Byron's works to help construct a new Jewish identity. |