Monstrous Fellowship: 'Pagan, Turk and Jew' in English Popular Culture, 1780-1845

ISBN-13: 9781787078840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Toni Wein

Opis

«Pagan, Turk and Jew», a phrase appearing as early as 1548, came to denominate fictional stand-ins for Irish Catholics, Muslims and Jews during the long nineteenth century. This book draws connections between the streets and stages of London to explore the role played by ethnic stereotyping in the creation of a British social body.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: Settling Terms, Terms of Settlement - Red Jews and Northern Hordes: George Gordon and the Riots - The Racial Geography of Political Economy - Moving Shadows: Theatre and the Play of Ethnicity - The Counterfeit Real - Reinventing Abraham - Razing Gordon's Ghost.

O autorze

Toni Wein is Professor of English at California State University, Fresno. After an early career in theatre, she received her PhD in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in the Romantic period. She has previously taught at Berkeley, Gettysburg College and Princeton. She is the author of British Identities, Heroic Nationalisms, and the Gothic Novel, 1764-1824 (2002) and has published essays on the Irish landscape, theatrical representations of Jews, ecocriticism and authorial aggrandizement from Horace Walpole to Maria Edgeworth.