Jewish Representation in British Literature 1780-1840: After Shylock

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Springer, 26.9.2011 - 270 sivua
Describing Jewish representation by Jews and Gentiles in the British Romantic era from the Old Bailey courtroom and popular songs to novels, poetry, and political pamphlets, Scrivener integrates popular culture with belletristic writing to explore the wildly varying treatments of stereotypical Jewish figures.
 

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Introduction
1
1 Jewish Representations Literary Criticism and History
11
2 1656 and the Origins of AngloJewish Writing
26
3 The Pedlar
45
4 The Moneylender
83
5 The Jews Daughter
112
6 Exiles and Prophets
159
After Shylock?
199
Notes
210
Bibliography
243
Index
259
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MICHAEL SCRIVENER is a Professor of English at Wayne State University, USA. He has published books on Percy Shelley (Radical Shelley, 1982), John Thelwall (Seditious Allegories, 2001; Two Plays by John Thelwall, 2006), Romantic verse in political periodicals (Poetry and Reform, 1992), and cosmopolitanism (Cosmopolitan Ideal in the Age of Revolution and Reaction, 1776-1832, 2007). He was awarded the 2006 Distinguished Scholar Award by the Keats-Shelley Association of America and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007-08.

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