{"product_id":"heirs-of-yesterday-paperback","title":"Heirs of Yesterday - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Cantalupo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLori Harrison-Kahan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in 1900 and set in fin-de-siècle California, \u003ci\u003eHeirs of Yesterday \u003c\/i\u003eby 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 \u003ci\u003eHeirs of Yesterday. \u003c\/i\u003eIt 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 \u003ci\u003eHeirs of Yesterday \u003c\/i\u003eilluminate competing notions of Jewish American identity at the turn of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCompared to the familiar ghetto tales penned by Yiddish-speaking, Eastern European immigrant writers, \u003ci\u003eHeirs of Yesterday \u003c\/i\u003eoffers 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTailored for students, scholars, and readers of women's studies, Jewish studies, and American literature and history, this new edition of \u003ci\u003eHeirs of Yesterday\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the art, historical value, and controversial nature of Wolf's work.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Cantalupo is professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Edgar Allan Poe Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003ePoe and the Visual Arts, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Poe Studies Association's Quinn award for a distinguished monograph on Poe, and she is the editor of Emma Wolf's\u003ci\u003e Other Things Being Equal \u003c\/i\u003e(Wayne State University Press, 2002) and \u003ci\u003eEmma Wolf's Short Stories in the Smart Set\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLori Harrison-Kahan is associate professor of the practice of English at Boston College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson \u003c\/i\u003e(Wayne State University Press, 2019).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 03, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51790794883360,"sku":"9780814346686","price":53.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/e9332d80447edaf65615fed0a7c6212b.webp?v=1780685145","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/heirs-of-yesterday-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}