Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture
«Review of the hardback: '… subtle and persuasive study …Valman's careful historicization illuminates the way this recurring pattern was adapted …She represented a complicated tissue of ideas that have been delicately unpicked in this intelligent book.' The Times Literary Supplement»
Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the nation raged. While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in this period, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cambridge University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780521134057
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«Review of the hardback: '… subtle and persuasive study …Valman's careful historicization illuminates the way this recurring pattern was adapted …She represented a complicated tissue of ideas that have been delicately unpicked in this intelligent book.' The Times Literary Supplement»