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 transnational 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"