The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

by Valman Nadia and Nadia Valman

Book Overview

Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain as debates about the place of the Jews in the nation raged. While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of antisemitic stereotypes in this period, Nadia Valman argues that the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial - reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity, identification and desire. Reading a range of texts from popular romance to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521134056
• ISBN13: 9780521134057
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"