Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature - Anthony, David (Professor and Director of the School of Literature,
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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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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.
Autorenporträt
David Anthony is Professor and Director of the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities at SIU Carbondale. He received his PhD at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America, and various articles on antebellum literature in venues such as ALH, American Literature, Early American Literature, The Yale Journal of Criticism and elsewhere. Anthony has also published a novel, entitled Something for Nothing.