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Borders of Intimacy in Israel Zangwill's Children of the Ghetto

Date Published:

7 Jan, 2015

Abstract:

The article focuses on Zangwill’s unusual depictions of ghetto life in late-Victorian London. Zangwill portrays the ghetto as a space with a proclivity for holding its inhabitants not through economic, legal, or cultural pressures — all features of earlier Victorian writing about the ghetto — but through its affective power. It begins by situating Zangwill’s depictions of ghetto life amidst a longer trajectory of Victorian ghetto discourse. The essay moves on to explore the significance of Zangwill’s innovation in depicting ghetto life as a place that emerges from borders born of the interplay of intimate encounters, emotional knowledge, and embodied experience.

 

January 2015: Heidi Kaufman is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oregon. She is the author of English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Reflections on a Nested Nation (Penn State, 2009). She has also co-edited (with Christ Fauske) An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth in Context (University of Delaware, 2004) and (with Maria K. Bachman and Marlene Tromp) Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia (Ohio State University Press, 2013). Her work has appeared in Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth Century Studies, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Jewish Studies Journal, and in essay collections.

 

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Volume 13, Issue 1 Divided Loyalties
Last updated on 04/14/2020