Constructions of 'The Jew' in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations, 1875-1945

ISBN-13: 9780521558778 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str.

Bryan Cheyette

Opis

Literary critics and cultural historians have for too long written the question of race out of mainstream accounts of English literature. In Constructions of "the Jew" in English Literature and Society Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with close readings of works by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and Joyce to argue that the Jew lies at the heart of modern English literature and society: not as a stereotype, but as the embodiment of confusion and indeterminacy.

Recenzje

'Rather than poetic licence, Cheyette relies on impressive scholarship to see well beyond the usual stereotypes of the anti-Semitic writer.' Clive Sinclair, Jewish Chronicle

Spis treści

1. Introduction: semitism and the cultural realm; 2. The promised land of liberalism: Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot; 3. Empire and anarchy: John Buchan and Rudyard Kipling; 4. The 'socialism of fools': George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells; 5. The limits of liberalism: Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton; 6. Modernism and ambivalence: James Joyce and T. S. Eliot; 7. Conclusion: semitism and the crisis of representation; Bibliography; Index.