Between 'Race' and Culture: Representations of 'The Jew' in English and American Literature

by Bryan Cheyette

Book Overview

This collection of essays examines various representations of "the Jew" in British and American literature in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyzes in detail the literary racism and antisemitism of some of the most important and influential writers of this period, including Dickens, Trollope, James, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, Woolf, and Orwell, as well as such marginal figures as Dorothy Richardson, Stevie Smith, and Michael Gold. The contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728534
• ISBN13: 9780804728539
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"