Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature

Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' that convey how the spectres of Jewish difference and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature.

Author: C. Davison
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 06/30/2004
Pages: 227
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.42w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780333929513
2004 Edition