The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British

Informationen zum Autor Nadia Valman is Lecturer in English at the University of Southampton. Klappentext The representation of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious! racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. Zusammenfassung Nadia Valman investigates how the figure of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious! racial and national identity into sharp focus. Reading Walter Scott! George Eliot and Anthony Trollope alongside Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna! Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy! Valman demonstrates the remarkable persistence of this theme across the century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the Jewess question; 2. Repellent beauty: the liberal nation and the Jewess; 3. Jewish persuasions: gender and the culture of conversion; 4. Women of Israel: femininity, politics and Anglo-Jewish fiction; 5. Hellenist heroines: commerce, art and the Jewess; 6. The shadow of the harem: fin de siècle racial romance; 7. Conclusion: neither wild thing nor tame; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Valman Nadia, Nadia Valman, Valman Nadia
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9780521134057
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13405-7
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteent; Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities