{"product_id":"cosella-wayne-or-will-and-destiny-paperback-softback-9780817359560","title":"Cosella Wayne; Or, Will and Destiny (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817359560","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCosella Wayne\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOr, Will and Destiny\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCora WIlburn (Author), Jonathan D. Sarna (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817359560\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 22 October 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e448 pages, 1 black \u0026amp; white figure\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 14.9 x 2.5 cm, 0.523 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eJonathan Sarna's edition of \u003ci\u003eCosella Wayne\u003c\/i\u003e renders accessible to general readers-as well as to students and scholars of modern history, women's and gender studies, religion, and Jewish studies-the gripping tale of the global adventures and personal travails of its inimitable heroine, Cosella Wayne. Engrossing as a work of literature and enthralling as a window onto the life and world of its remarkable author, Cora Wilburn, \u003ci\u003eCosella Wayne\u003c\/i\u003e is a family saga that grapples mightily with the nature of religious conversion, the implications of gender, the oppressiveness of poverty, and the destructiveness of child abuse. It paints intimate portraits of nineteenth-century Jewish and Spiritualist practices as well as of a courageous young woman's search for truth, love, and belonging. This highly readable edition will be particularly welcome in university classrooms, where it will draw students deep into the fundamental questions that animate a range of disciplines.\" - Paola Tartakoff, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe first novel written and published in English by an American Jewish woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Published serially in the spiritualist journal \u003ci\u003eBanner of Light\u003c\/i\u003e\u0026amp;shy; in 1860\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCosella Wayne, or Will and Destiny\u003c\/i\u003e is the first coming-of-age novel to depict Jews in the United States and transforms what we know about the history of early American Jewish literature. The novel never appeared in book form, went unmentioned in Jewish newspapers of the day, and studies of nineteenth-century American Jewish literature ignore it completely. Yet the novel anticipates central themes of American Jewish writing: intermarriage, generational tension, family dysfunction, Jewish-Christian relations, immigration, poverty, the place of women in Jewish life, the nature of romantic love, and the tension between destiny and free will.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The narrative recounts a relationship between an abusive Jewish father and the rebellious daughter he molested as well as that daughter's efforts at finding a place in the complex social fabric of nineteenth-century America. It is also unique in portraying such themes as an unmarried Jewish woman's descent into poverty, her forlorn years as a starving orphaned seamstress, her apostasy and return to Judaism, and her quest to be both Jewish and a spiritualist at one and the same time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Sarna, who introduces the volume, discovered \u003ci\u003eCosella Wayne\u003c\/i\u003e while pursuing research at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem. This edition is supplemented with Cora Wilburn's recently rediscovered diary, selections from which are reprinted in the appendix. Together, these materials help to situate \u003ci\u003eCosella Wayne \u003c\/i\u003ewithin the life and times of one of nineteenth-century American Jewry's least known and yet most prolific female authors.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEditor'\u003cbr\u003es Introduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Note on the Text\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCosella Wayne: Or, Will and Destiny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. A Wandering Childhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. The Rhine Voyage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. Foreboding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Watcher by the Tomb\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. The Jewish Betrothal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Awakening\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. The Dawn of the New Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. The Dream'\u003cbr\u003es Reply\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e9. Bereavement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e10. The Web of Destiny\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11. The Second Sorrow\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e12. Light on the Pathway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e13. The Teachings of the Fathers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e14. Temptation and Trial\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e15. The Virgin'\u003cbr\u003es Shrine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e16. The Step into the World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e17. Spirit Teachings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e18. Changes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e19. Retribution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e20. Manasseh'\u003cbr\u003es Letter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e21. Above the Clouds of Earth\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e22. The Realities of Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e23. Toil and Suffering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e24. The Mission of the Beautiful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e25. 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