A hundred acres of America : the geography of Jewish American literary history

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    • Hoberman, Michael

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A hundred acres of America : the geography of Jewish American literary history

Michael Hoberman

Rutgers University Press, c2019

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Jewish writers have long had a sense of place in the United States, and interpretations of American geography have appeared in Jewish American literature from the colonial era forward. But troublingly, scholarship on Jewish American literary history often limits itself to an immigrant model, situating the Jewish American literary canon firmly and inescapably among the immigrant authors and early environments of the early twentieth century. In A Hundred Acres of America, Michael Hoberman combines literary history and geography to restore Jewish American writers to their roles as critical members of the American literary landscape from the 1850s to the present, and to argue that Jewish history, American literary history, and the inhabitation of American geography are, and always have been, contiguous entities.

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Contents Preface Introduction. "A Never Failing Source of Interest to Us": Jewish American Literature and the Sense of Place-1-13 Chapter One. "In this vestibule of God's holy temple": the frontier accounts of Solomon Carvalho and Israel Joseph Benjamin, 1857-1862-14-55 Chapter Two. Colonial revival in the immigrant city: the invention of Jewish American urban history, 1870-1910-56-98 Chapter Three. "A rare good fortune to anyone": Joseph Leiser's and Edna Ferber's reminiscences of small-town Jewish life, 1909-1939-99-144 Chapter Four. "The longed for pastoral": images of exurban exile in Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997) and Allegra Goodman's Kaaterskill Falls (1998)-145-186 Chapter Five. Return to the shtetl: following the "topological turn" in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel (1995) and Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything is Illuminated (2002)-187-227 Chapter Six. Turning dreamscapes into landscapes on the "Wild West Bank" frontier: Jon Papernick's The Ascent of Eli Israel (2002) and Risa Miller's Welcome to Heavenly Heights (2003)-228-266 Conclusion. Mystical encounters and ordinary places-267-276 Acknowledgements Notes Index

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