Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830 - Brossura

Felsenstein, Frank

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ISBN 10: 0801861799 ISBN 13: 9780801861796

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

In Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, Felsenstein focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" eighteenth century, from roughly 1660 through 1830. He describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages. Felsenstein finds evidence of these biases in a wide range of primary sources—chapbooks, ephemeral pamphlets, tracts, jest books, prints, folklore, proverbial expressions, and so on, as well as in the products of higher culture. With the advent of the nineteenth century, however, he sees a gradual development of more liberal attitudes in English society, "inchmeal evidence of the loosening hold upon the collective imagination of medieval beliefs concerning the Jews."

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Informazioni sull?autore

Frank Felsenstein is the Reed D. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Ball State University. He was previously Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0801861799
• ISBN 13: 9780801861796
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 376
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