Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Biographic Data
| ID | 5395251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharon Aronofsky Weltman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharon Aronofsky |
| FAMILY NAME | Weltman |
| SIGNATURE | WELTMAN S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6374-0864 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Victorian London’s Black playwrights
Toy theater
Strangers in the Archive
An exciting work of research that is partly a story of the investigative process itself, Strangers in the Archive: Literary Evidence and London’s East End by Heidi Kaufman both documents and theorizes the tension between insider and outsider status in Victorian depictions of the East End. Kaufman documents archival materials offering traces of what the East Enders themselves thought and wrote about their neighborhoods as insiders within their com…
Women, Realism, and Power
Melodrama, Purimspiel , and Jewish Emancipation
Long forgotten, Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1835–43) is the earliest known Jewish woman playwright in England. This essay argues that her first play, Esther, the Royal Jewess , or the Death of Haman! (1835), performed at a public playhouse in the Jewish working-class neighborhood of London's East End, radically realigns diverse genres and populations in advocating both Jewish emancipation and a voice for women. By way of a very brief introduction, I fi…
Dickensian dramas
Dickensian Dramas: Plays from Charles Dickens is a handsome two-volume modern scholarly edition collecting sixteen Victorian plays adapted from Charles Dickens’s fiction. The books’ persuasive argu
Theatricality
uses Ruskin to reflect upon the duration of literary form: "Let us imagine new ways of accounting for the temporality of both social and literary forms, structures which are neither unchanging outlines nor historical moments entirely past" ("Durations of Presents Past: Ruskin and the Accretive Quality of Time," Victorian Studies 59, no. 1 [2016]: 94-97, 96-97). 6. Sue Zemka's Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society (Cambridge: Cam…
Persistent Ruskin
Gilbert and Sullivan
Ruskin’s Educational Ideals (review)
Reviewed by: Ruskin’s Educational Ideals Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (bio) Sara Atwood. Ruskin’s Educational Ideals. Farnham, England, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 190 pp. ISBN 978-1409408376, $99.95. In Ruskin’s Educational Ideals, Sara Atwood has taken on the valuable task of presenting the educational philosophy of John Ruskin to a modern readership. Besides his fame as arguably the greatest English prose stylist of the nineteenth century, …
Can a Fellow Be a Villain All His Life?”
Jane Heir to the Glimmering World
Research Article| January 01 2009 Jane Heir to the Glimmering World: Cynthia Ozick's Victorian Vision Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2009) 28: 3–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/41206110 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; Jane Heir to the Glimmering World: Cynthia O…
Victorians on the Contemporary Stage
Victorians on the Contemporary Stage
Jane Heir to the Glimmering World
Research Article| January 01 2009 Jane Heir to the Glimmering World: Cynthia Ozick's Victorian Vision Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Sharon Aronofsky Weltman Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Studies in American Jewish Literature (1981-) (2009) 28: 3–13. https://doi.org/10.2307/41206110 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Sharon Aronofsky Weltman; Jane Heir to the Glimmering World: Cynthia O…
Ruskin’s Educational Ideals (review)
Reviewed by: Ruskin’s Educational Ideals Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (bio) Sara Atwood. Ruskin’s Educational Ideals. Farnham, England, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. 190 pp. ISBN 978-1409408376, $99.95. In Ruskin’s Educational Ideals, Sara Atwood has taken on the valuable task of presenting the educational philosophy of John Ruskin to a modern readership. Besides his fame as arguably the greatest English prose stylist of the nineteenth century, …
Can a Fellow Be a Villain All His Life?”
Gilbert and Sullivan
Persistent Ruskin
Theatricality
uses Ruskin to reflect upon the duration of literary form: "Let us imagine new ways of accounting for the temporality of both social and literary forms, structures which are neither unchanging outlines nor historical moments entirely past" ("Durations of Presents Past: Ruskin and the Accretive Quality of Time," Victorian Studies 59, no. 1 [2016]: 94-97, 96-97). 6. Sue Zemka's Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society (Cambridge: Cam…
Melodrama, Purimspiel , and Jewish Emancipation
Long forgotten, Elizabeth Polack (fl. 1835–43) is the earliest known Jewish woman playwright in England. This essay argues that her first play, Esther, the Royal Jewess , or the Death of Haman! (1835), performed at a public playhouse in the Jewish working-class neighborhood of London's East End, radically realigns diverse genres and populations in advocating both Jewish emancipation and a voice for women. By way of a very brief introduction, I fi…
Dickensian dramas
Dickensian Dramas: Plays from Charles Dickens is a handsome two-volume modern scholarly edition collecting sixteen Victorian plays adapted from Charles Dickens’s fiction. The books’ persuasive argu
Women, Realism, and Power
Strangers in the Archive
An exciting work of research that is partly a story of the investigative process itself, Strangers in the Archive: Literary Evidence and London’s East End by Heidi Kaufman both documents and theorizes the tension between insider and outsider status in Victorian depictions of the East End. Kaufman documents archival materials offering traces of what the East Enders themselves thought and wrote about their neighborhoods as insiders within their com…
Victorian London’s Black playwrights
Toy theater
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