"something Dreadful and Grand": American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious

by Stephen Watt

Elaborate analogies between Irish and Jewish history, between Irish and Jewish subjectivities, occur with surprising frequency throughout American literature. They recall James Joyce's Leopold Bloom and episodes of Ulysses, Douglas Hyde's analogies during the Celtic Revival between learning Hebrew and learning Irish, and a myriad of claims of an unusual relationship between these peoples that goes beyond comparisons of their respective diasporic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190227958
• ISBN13: 9780190227951
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"