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Cosmopolitan Disturbances: Amy Levy in Dresden

Verfasst von: Vadillo, Ana Parejo
in: Forum for modern language studies
Oxford: 2017 , 325–337 S.

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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Vadillo, Ana Parejo
In: Forum for modern language studies
Jahr: 2017
Sprache: Englisch
Beschreibung:
This essay discusses Amy Levy’s vision of cosmopolitanism. It focuses on her trip to Dresden in 1881–82 and argues that the crux of her trip was the juxtaposition of Dresden as a liberating cosmopolitan space with her disturbing experience of the city in the context of antisemitism which, in the political discourse of the period, was framed within an anti-cosmopolitan, nationalist ideology. The essay traces how Levy’s writings (Medea, Reuben Sachs and A London Plane-Tree) were shaped by the trip, as she experienced the cosmopolitan as two distinctly opposing forces: one progressive and liberating, the other oppressive and destructive...
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