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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period.
Trade Review“In cutting-edge critiques of race and gender, each as a value of ‘otherness,’ the contributors bring to light refreshingly new and insightful understandings of familiar works. As a result, readers may not read any of these works the same way again. Even the canonically enforced distinction between the two national literatures begins to break down in the face of these contributors’ exciting new work.”—James E. Young, University of Massachusetts
Table of ContentsContributors; 1. Introduction: unanswered questions Bryan Cheyette; 2. Romanticism and/or antisemitism William Galperin; 3. Mark Twain and the diseases of the Jews Sander K. Gilman; 4. Seeing double: Jews in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, and George Eliot Murray Baumgarten; 5. Henry James and the discourses of antisemitism Jonathan Freedman; 6. The imaginary Jew; T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound Maud Ellmann; 7. A nightmare of history: Ireland's Jews and Joyce's Ulysses Marilyn Reizbaum; 8. Dorothy Richardson and the Jew Jacqueline Rose; 9. The milk of our mother's kindness has ceased to flow: Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith and the representation of the Jew Phyllis Lassner; 10. The protection of masculinity: Jews as projective pawns in the texts of William Gerhardi and George Orwell Andrea Freud Loewenstein; 11. Some uses for Jewish ambivalence: Abraham Cahan and Michael Gold Eric Homberger; Notes; Index.
