Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature

by Carol Margaret Davison

Book Overview

Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333929519
• ISBN13: 9780333929513
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.9"