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Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in Antebellum literature. It demonstrates how the "Sensational Jew" is a revealing figure in antebellum culture, as well as an important antecedent to contemporary Antisemitism in the US.

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Antisemitism has appeared in many times and places-and, as David Anthony shows in his informative, unsettling Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature, in many genres.... In exploring this seamy side of antebellum America, Anthony follows many critics who have examined nineteenth - century sensational culture over the past several decades. But he is the first to highlight Jewish characters. * David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books *

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Introduction: Money Laundering and the Sensational Jew 1: Region, Capitalism, and the Jew in the Post-Tom Plantation Novel 2: La Belle Juive, or "Jew"?: From Rachel Félix to The Marble Faun 3: Desire by Proxy: The Cosmopolitan Jew in Theodore Winthrop's Cecil Dreeme 4: Fagin in America Conclusion: Race, Money, and the Jew Coda: Charlottesville, "Molineux," and the Phantom Jew

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 4 July 2023
      ISBN-13 9780192871732
      978-0192871732
      ISBN-10 0192871730
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in Antebellum literature. It demonstrates how the "Sensational Jew" is a revealing figure in antebellum culture, as well as an important antecedent to contemporary Antisemitism in the US.

      Trade Review
      Antisemitism has appeared in many times and places-and, as David Anthony shows in his informative, unsettling Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature, in many genres.... In exploring this seamy side of antebellum America, Anthony follows many critics who have examined nineteenth - century sensational culture over the past several decades. But he is the first to highlight Jewish characters. * David S. Reynolds, The New York Review of Books *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Money Laundering and the Sensational Jew 1: Region, Capitalism, and the Jew in the Post-Tom Plantation Novel 2: La Belle Juive, or "Jew"?: From Rachel Félix to The Marble Faun 3: Desire by Proxy: The Cosmopolitan Jew in Theodore Winthrop's Cecil Dreeme 4: Fagin in America Conclusion: Race, Money, and the Jew Coda: Charlottesville, "Molineux," and the Phantom Jew

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