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Book SynopsisFrom images of the 19th- and 20th-century stereotypical Jew in literature, this book goes on to explore the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition.
Trade ReviewWhere The Temple of Culture differs markedly from the usual accounts of literary anti-Semitism is that it also explores the response of Jewish individuals (academics, publishers and New York freethinkers) to the manifold discourses which brought together Jews and culture in increasingly odd conjunctions ... Achieves a great deal in a relatively short but remarkably intelligent book ... has, it is to be hoped, changed the terms of debate away from the many heated and fruitless exchanges which have steadfastly ignored the fundamental ambivalences which remain at the heart of Anglo-American culture. * Times Literary Supplement *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Preface ; 1. The Jew in the Museum ; 2. The Temple of Culture and the Market for Letters:The Jew and the Way We Write Now ; 3. The Mania for the Middlebrow: Trilby, the Jew, and the Middlebrow Imaginary ; 4. Henry James and the Discourses of Anti-Semitism ; 5. Henry James among the Jews ; Afterword: Beyond the Battle of the Blooms
