Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990: Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-90 (Judaic Traditions in LIterature, Music, and Art) - Hardcover

Klingenstein, Susanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815605404 ISBN 13: 9780815605409

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Beginning her story at Harvard University, Klingenstein describes the unique intellectual paths taken by scholars such as Harry Levin, Daniel Aaron, M. H. Abrams, Leo Marx, and Sacvan Bercovitch. At Columbia University, Klingenstein argues that the singular Jewish presence of Lionel Trilling shaped the minds and inspired the careers of Jewish intellectuals as different as Cynthia Ozick, Norman Podhoretz, Steven Marcus, and Carolyn Heilbrun. Once Jewish scholars had attained a strong foothold in literary academe, pioneering spirits such as Robert Alter and Ruth R. Wisse turned their attention from English and American to Jewish literature in Hebrew and Yiddish. Written as an interconnected series of twelve lucid and compelling portraits of major figures in the history of American literary criticism, this book illuminates the element of serendipity in culture-formation an exposes the social and intellectual forces at work in cultural change.

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About the Author:

Susanne Klingenstein is associate professor of writing and humanistic studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author of Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940 (forthcoming in paper from Syracuse University Press, see below), she has contributed many articles on American Jewish literature and culture to scholarly journals.

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0815605404
• ISBN 13: 9780815605409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 528