Stephen Watt

Something Dreadful and Grand

American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780190227951
• ISBN-10: 0190227958
• Artikelnr.: 47863980

Autorenporträt

Stephen Watt is Professor of English, Theater, and Drama at Indiana University. His previous books include Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing (Cambridge UP, 2009) and Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007 (Indiana University Press, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter One:
Introduction: Performing the Irish Jewish Unconscious
Chapter Two:
The Cultural Work of Irish- and Jewish-American Melodrama
Chapter Three:
Allosemitism and the Performative Uncanny: Leah and Shylock, Svengali and the Count of Monte Cristo
Chapter Four:
The Jewish-Irish Modern American Drama
Chapter Five:
The New Wandering Rocks
Bibliography