Constructions of 'The Jew' in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945

by Bryan Cheyette

Book Overview

Literary critics and cultural historians have for too long written the question of race out of mainstream accounts of English literature. In Constructions of the Jew in English Literature and Society Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of works by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and Joyce to argue that the Jew lies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521558778
• ISBN13: 9780521558778
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"