Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840

After Shylock
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-28741-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 327 g

Reihe: Nineteenth-Century Major Lives and Letters

Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scrivener, M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Jewish Representations, Literary Criticism and History 1656 and the Origins of Anglo-Jewish Writing The Pedlar The Moneylender The Jew's Daughter Exiles and Prophets Working Through Stereotypes: After Shylock?

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL SCRIVENER is a Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA.  He has published books on Percy Shelley (Radical Shelley, 1982), John Thelwall (Seditious Allegories, 2001; Two Plays by John Thelwall, 2006), Romantic verse in political periodicals (Poetry and Reform, 1992), and cosmopolitanism (Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776-1832, 2007).  He was awarded the 2006 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007-08.