The Image of the Jew in European Liberal Culture, 1789-1914 (Parkes-Wiener Series on Jewish Studies) [Paperback]

Bryan Cheyette (Editor), Nadia Valman (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0853035172 | ISBN-13: 978-0853035176 | Publication Date: July 28, 2004 | Edition: Revised

These essays explore the complex articulations and contexts of anti-Semitism in the literature of four cultures - Britain, France, Germany and Italy, in the "long 19th century". Individuals explored in this context include: Cesare Lombroso, Max Nordau, Marcel Proust, and Sir Walter Scott.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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About the Author

Professor Bryan Cheyette is Chair in Twentieth-Century Literature in the English Department at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society (1993), Muriel Spark (2000), editor of Between 'Race' and Culture (1996), Contemporary Jewish Writing in Britain and Ireland: An Anthology (1998) and co-editor of Modernity, Culture and 'the Jew' (1998). Dr Nadia Valman is a lecturer in English at the University of Southampton and the Parkes Centre for the study of Jewish/non-Jewish relations. She has published on Victorian Anglo-Jewish literature, has co-edited Remembering Cable Street and is editor of the journal Jewish Culture and History. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 247 pages
• Publisher: Vallentine Mitchell; Revised edition (July 28, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0853035172
• ISBN-13: 978-0853035176
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
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