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BL
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1034127
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b788497
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Davison, Carol Margaret.
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| Title & Author
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Anti-semitism and British gothic literature /\ Carol Margaret Davison.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, ©2004.
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ix, 227 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0333929519
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: 9780333929513
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-217) and index.
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| Contents
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The contested enlightenment, the contested castle -- The primal scene: the skeleton in Britain's closet -- Cabalistic conspiracies and the Crypto-Jew -- The rise of the vampiric wandering Jew: a sinister German-English co-production -- Britain, Vampire empire: fin-de-siècle fears and Bram Stoker's Dracula -- Afterword: pathological projection and the Nazi nightmare.
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"Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature is the first major full-length study of the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity. Reading the legendary figure of the transnational Wandering Jew as emblematic of the Jewish Question, Davison traces his rich and often ambivalent portrait to such diverse sources as medieval anti-Semitic stereotypes and Enlightenment debates over modernity. His increasing vampirism is discussed against the backdrop of Britain's development as a rapidly industrializing and imperialist nation involved in negotiating the relationship between ethics and economics. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' in classic Gothic works by such authors as Bram Stoker, Matthew Lewis, William Godwin and Charles Robert Maturin, that convey how the spectres of Jewish Otherness and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature. This study brings a wealth of historical and cultural scholarship to bear on the religious questions that first fuelled the Gothic."--Jacket.
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Antisemitism in literature.
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Antisemitism-- Great Britain.
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Gothic revival (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Horror tales, English-- History and criticism.
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Jews in literature.
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Wandering Jew in literature.
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Antisémitisme dans la littérature.
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Antisémitisme-- Grande-Bretagne.
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Juif errant (Légende) dans la littérature.
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Juifs dans la littérature.
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Littérature frénétique-- Grande Bretagne.
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Récits d'horreur anglais-- Histoire et critique.
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Antisemitism in literature.
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Antisemitism.
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Antisemitismus
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Englisch
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Ewiger Jude
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Gothic novel
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror tales, English.
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Jews in literature.
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Wandering Jew in literature.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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823/.08738
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| LC Classification
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PR830.T3D385 2004
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HG 674rvk
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HL 1101rvk
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