Description
Book SynopsisGender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature, focusing on representations of Jews and women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, selections from medieval drama, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
Trade Review"This work brings insight and impeccable scholarship to bear on a demanding issue that retains contemporary relevance. Highly recommended." *
Choice *
"Lampert makes an important contribution to medieval Christian aesthetics in uncovering the supersessional thematic in the literary documents she treats, for the Old Law-New Law displacement construct she analyzes is doubtless present in many more works of art in various genres." *
Speculum *
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Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare sets out several related and ambitious agendas-to link constructions of gender and Jewishness; to show how both figurations function to establish and sustain Christian identities; and to trace these constructions through sixteen centuries of biblical, theological, and literary texts." *
The Medieval Review *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Made, Not Born
Chapter 2. The Hermeneutics of Difference
Chapter 3. Reprioritizing the Prioress's Tale
Chapter 4. Creating the Christian in Late Medieval East Anglian Drama
Chapter 5. "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" Exegesis and Identity in The Merchant of Venice
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
