عنوان

Anti-semitism and British gothic literature /

(Number (ISBN

0333929519

(Number (ISBN

9780333929513

Number

b788497

Title Proper

Anti-semitism and British gothic literature /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Carol Margaret Davison.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Palgrave Macmillan,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2004.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

ix, 227 pages ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-217) and index.

Text of Note

The contested enlightenment, the contested castle -- The primal scene: the skeleton in Britain's closet -- Cabalistic conspiracies and the Crypto-Jew -- The rise of the vampiric wandering Jew: a sinister German-English co-production -- Britain, Vampire empire: fin-de-siècle fears and Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Afterword: pathological projection and the Nazi nightmare.

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"Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature is the first major full-length study of the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity. Reading the legendary figure of the transnational Wandering Jew as emblematic of the Jewish Question, Davison traces his rich and often ambivalent portrait to such diverse sources as medieval anti-Semitic stereotypes and Enlightenment debates over modernity. His increasing vampirism is discussed against the backdrop of Britain's development as a rapidly industrializing and imperialist nation involved in negotiating the relationship between ethics and economics. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' in classic Gothic works by such authors as Bram Stoker, Matthew Lewis, William Godwin and Charles Robert Maturin, that convey how the spectres of Jewish Otherness and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature. This study brings a wealth of historical and cultural scholarship to bear on the religious questions that first fuelled the Gothic."--Jacket.

Antisemitism-- Great Britain.

Antisemitism in literature.

Gothic revival (Literature)-- Great Britain.

Horror tales, English-- History and criticism.

Jews in literature.

Wandering Jew in literature.

Antisémitisme dans la littérature.

Antisémitisme-- Grande-Bretagne.

Juif errant (Légende) dans la littérature.

Juifs dans la littérature.

Littérature frénétique-- Grande Bretagne.

Récits d'horreur anglais-- Histoire et critique.

Antisemitism in literature.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitismus

Englisch

Ewiger Jude

Gothic novel

Gothic revival (Literature)

Horror tales, English.

Jews in literature.

Wandering Jew in literature.

Englisch.

Great Britain.

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Book number

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Davison, Carol Margaret.

Date of Transaction

20201207020334.0

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[Book]

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