Heirs of Yesterday by Cantalupo, Barbara
Heirs of Yesterday by Cantalupo, Barbara

Heirs of Yesterday

Originally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-siècle California, Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (1865-1932) uses...
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
SKU: 9780814346686
Product Type: Books
Please hurry! Only 396 left in stock
Author: Barbara Cantalupo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Subtotal: €69,56
10 customers are viewing this product
Heirs of Yesterday by Cantalupo, Barbara

Heirs of Yesterday

€69,56
Heirs of Yesterday by Cantalupo, Barbara

Heirs of Yesterday

€69,56
Author: Barbara Cantalupo
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Originally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-siècle California, Heirs of Yesterday by Emma Wolf (1865-1932) uses a love story to explore topics such as familial loyalty, the conflict between American individualism and ethno-religious heritage, and anti-Semitism in the United States. The introduction, co-authored by Barbara Cantalupo and Lori Harrison-Kahan, includes biographical background on Wolf based on new research and explores key literary, historical, and religious contexts for Heirs of Yesterday. It incorporates background on the rise of Reform Judaism and the late nineteenth-century Jewish community in San Francisco, while also considering Wolf's relationship to the broader literary movement of realism and to other writers of her time. As Cantalupo and Harrison-Kahan demonstrate, the publication history and reception of Heirs of Yesterday illuminate competing notions of Jewish American identity at the turn of the twentieth century.

Compared to the familiar ghetto tales penned by Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European immigrant writers, Heirs of Yesterday offers a very different narrative about turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish life in the United States. The novel's central characters, physician Philip May and pianist Jean Willard, are not striving immigrants in the process of learning English and becoming American. Instead, they are native-born citizens who live in the middle-class community of San Francisco's Pacific Heights, where they interact socially and professionally with their gentile peers.

Tailored for students, scholars, and readers of women's studies, Jewish studies, and American literature and history, this new edition of Heirs of Yesterday highlights the art, historical value, and controversial nature of Wolf's work.

Author: Barbara Cantalupo, Lori Harrison-Kahan
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 11/03/2020
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN: 9780814346686

About the Author

Barbara Cantalupo is professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University and editor of The Edgar Allan Poe Review. She is the author of Poe and the Visual Arts, which won the Poe Studies Association's Quinn award for a distinguished monograph on Poe, and she is the editor of Emma Wolf's Other Things Being Equal (Wayne State University Press, 2002) and Emma Wolf's Short Stories in the Smart Set.

Lori Harrison-Kahan is associate professor of the practice of English at Boston College. She is the author of The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary and the editor of The Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (Wayne State University Press, 2019).
Shipping & Return

Returns Policy

You may return most new, unopened items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).

You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).

If you need to return an item, simply login to your account, view the order using the "Complete Orders" link under the My Account menu and click the Return Item(s) button. We'll notify you via e-mail of your refund once we've received and processed the returned item.

Shipping

We can ship to virtually any address in the world. Note that there are restrictions on some products, and some products cannot be shipped to international destinations.

When you place an order, we will estimate shipping and delivery dates for you based on the availability of your items and the shipping options you choose. Depending on the shipping provider you choose, shipping date estimates may appear on the shipping quotes page.

Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. To reflect the policies of the shipping companies we use, all weights will be rounded up to the next full pound.

Review

Related Products

Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR
Example product title
€69,56 EUR
€69,56 EUR

Recently Viewed Products