Title: Exiles on Main Street
Description: "How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture - in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman - led American Jewish writers to a new understanding of themselves as Jews."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: American literature, jewish authors, Jews, united states, Group identity in literature, American literature, Jewish authors, History and criticism, Jews, Identity, Jews in literature