Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
![The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing]( "The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing")
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing64,99 €![Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain]( "Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain")
Everyday Words and the Character of Prose in Nineteenth-Century Britain95,99 €![The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought]( "The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought")
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Thought80,99 €![Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century]( "Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century")
Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century79,99 €![British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914]( "British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-1914")
British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice, 1880-191468,99 €![James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century]( "James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century")
James Joyce in the Nineteenth Century64,99 €![The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing]( "The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing")
The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing27,99 €
The representation of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus.
Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the modern 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. Reading a range of texts from popular romance to the realist novel, she investigates how the complex figure of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. Tracing the narrative of the Jewess from its beginnings in Romantic and Evangelical literature, and reading canonical writers including Walter Scott, George Eliot and Anthony Trollope alongside more minor figures such as Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy, Valman demonstrates the remarkable persistence of this narrative and its myriad transformations across the century.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction: the Jewess question; 2. Repellent beauty: the liberal nation and the Jewess; 3. Jewish persuasions: gender and the culture of conversion; 4. Women of Israel: femininity, politics and Anglo-Jewish fiction; 5. Hellenist heroines: commerce, art and the Jewess; 6. The shadow of the harem: fin de siècle racial romance; 7. Conclusion: neither wild thing nor tame; Bibliography; Index.
Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the modern 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. Reading a range of texts from popular romance to the realist novel, she investigates how the complex figure of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. Tracing the narrative of the Jewess from its beginnings in Romantic and Evangelical literature, and reading canonical writers including Walter Scott, George Eliot and Anthony Trollope alongside more minor figures such as Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy, Valman demonstrates the remarkable persistence of this narrative and its myriad transformations across the century.
Table of contents:
1. Introduction: the Jewess question; 2. Repellent beauty: the liberal nation and the Jewess; 3. Jewish persuasions: gender and the culture of conversion; 4. Women of Israel: femininity, politics and Anglo-Jewish fiction; 5. Hellenist heroines: commerce, art and the Jewess; 6. The shadow of the harem: fin de siècle racial romance; 7. Conclusion: neither wild thing nor tame; Bibliography; Index.