Anti-Semitic Stereotypes

A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830
Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6179-6
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Reihe: Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies

In Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, Felsenstein focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" eighteenth century, from roughly 1660 through 1830. He describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages. Felsenstein finds evidence of these biases in a wide range of primary sources—chapbooks, ephemeral pamphlets, tracts, jest books, prints, folklore, proverbial expressions, and so on, as well as in the products of higher culture. With the advent of the nineteenth century, however, he sees a gradual development of more liberal attitudes in English society, "inchmeal evidence of the loosening hold upon the collective imagination of medieval beliefs concerning the Jews."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felsenstein, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Chronology
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Stereotypes
Chapter 2. Jews and Devils
Chapter 3. Following Readmission: Evolving Stereotypes
Chapter 4. Wandering Jew, Vagabond Jews
Chapter 5. Conversion
Chapter 6. Ceremonies
Chapter 7. "Ev'ry child hates Shylock"
Chapter 8. The Jew Bill
Chapter 9. Toward Emancipation
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Felsenstein, Frank
Frank Felsenstein was a reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds and is now Yeshiva College Director of the Honors Program at Yeshiva University, New York. He is the author of Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Frank Felsenstein is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Ball State University. He was previously Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds.