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.

Times Literary Supplement

<p>Although studies of Jews in British literature and culture are plentiful, studies devoted to early Anglo-Jewish authors are extremely rare. … Dwor does a considerable service in adding to the current scholarship on Aguilar and Levy, who have both enjoyed something of a renaissance in the past two decades. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of Anglo-Jewish literature and culture, Jewish women writers, and Victorian<br />fiction and religion more generally.</p>

Religion and the Arts

Richa Dwor’s <i>Jewish Feeling</i> is an important contribution to studies of 19th-century Anglo-Jewish women as writers and of Jews as subjects in their work. … Dwor’s compelling thesis is that 19th-century Jewish women writers, specifically in fiction and poetry, developed a midrashic technique of persuading through affect – developing and appealing to affectus – as they evoked Jewish difference and elaborated visions for the future of Jews in Britain. … Jewish Feeling grapples well with its potentially slippery topic. Dwor draws amply on recent criticism and theory, placing her study within the important and growing fields of Anglo-Jewish literary and cultural criticism. This book makes significant contributions to both.

Literature and History