'Richa Dwor is an Instructor in the English Department at Douglas College, Canada.

• Introduction: Affect and Jewish Feeling What is affect?What is midrash? Midrash and affectChapter 1 – ‘The still undercurrent of deep feeling’: history and nation for Grace Aguilar ‘More than unusually moved’: representing women’s reading‘The full gushing tide of rapture’: theorising women’s reading ‘The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records’ Jewish histories for England’s JewsChapter 2 – ‘Finer and finer discrimination’: George Eliot’s feeling for the Jews‘Various combinations of common likeness’: fellow feeling and the ethics of form‘Absorbing enthusiasm’: education and identity ‘A people with oriental sunlight in their blood’: Jewish nationalism Chapter 3 – ‘A fragment of the eternal truth’: futurity and race for Amy Levy‘That elaborate misconception’: debating Deronda with George Eliot and Henry James‘Startling with excess of truth’: futurity and poetic unfitness ‘A strange yearning affection’: the racial romance of Reuben SachsConclusion – Esther and Judith in LondonIndex

Richa Dwor's illuminating study ... deftly combines philosophy, theology and literature to demonstrate a new category of affect - both Midrashic and secular - manifest in the realm of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish female writing.

'Richa Dwor is an Instructor in the English Department at Douglas College, Canada.

• Introduction: Affect and Jewish Feeling What is affect?What is midrash? Midrash and affectChapter 1 – ‘The still undercurrent of deep feeling’: history and nation for Grace Aguilar ‘More than unusually moved’: representing women’s reading‘The full gushing tide of rapture’: theorising women’s reading ‘The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records’ Jewish histories for England’s JewsChapter 2 – ‘Finer and finer discrimination’: George Eliot’s feeling for the Jews‘Various combinations of common likeness’: fellow feeling and the ethics of form‘Absorbing enthusiasm’: education and identity ‘A people with oriental sunlight in their blood’: Jewish nationalism Chapter 3 – ‘A fragment of the eternal truth’: futurity and race for Amy Levy‘That elaborate misconception’: debating Deronda with George Eliot and Henry James‘Startling with excess of truth’: futurity and poetic unfitness ‘A strange yearning affection’: the racial romance of Reuben SachsConclusion – Esther and Judith in LondonIndex

Richa Dwor's illuminating study ... deftly combines philosophy, theology and literature to demonstrate a new category of affect - both Midrashic and secular - manifest in the realm of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish female writing.

'Richa Dwor is an Instructor in the English Department at Douglas College, Canada.

• Introduction: Affect and Jewish Feeling What is affect?What is midrash? Midrash and affectChapter 1 – ‘The still undercurrent of deep feeling’: history and nation for Grace Aguilar ‘More than unusually moved’: representing women’s reading‘The full gushing tide of rapture’: theorising women’s reading ‘The Bible, and that nation whose earliest history it so vividly records’ Jewish histories for England’s JewsChapter 2 – ‘Finer and finer discrimination’: George Eliot’s feeling for the Jews‘Various combinations of common likeness’: fellow feeling and the ethics of form‘Absorbing enthusiasm’: education and identity ‘A people with oriental sunlight in their blood’: Jewish nationalism Chapter 3 – ‘A fragment of the eternal truth’: futurity and race for Amy Levy‘That elaborate misconception’: debating Deronda with George Eliot and Henry James‘Startling with excess of truth’: futurity and poetic unfitness ‘A strange yearning affection’: the racial romance of Reuben SachsConclusion – Esther and Judith in LondonIndex

Richa Dwor's illuminating study ... deftly combines philosophy, theology and literature to demonstrate a new category of affect - both Midrashic and secular - manifest in the realm of nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish female writing.