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  3. Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
October 2009
Print publication year:
1993
Online ISBN:
9780511553684
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511553684
Subjects:
Literature, English Literature 1900-1945
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Book description

Bryan Cheyette combines cultural theory, discourse analysis, and new historicism with close readings of work by Arnold, Trollope and George Eliot, Buchan and Kipling, Shaw and Wells, Belloc and Chesterton, T. S. Eliot and James Joyce, to argue that 'the Jew' lies at the heart of modern English society: not as a stereotype, but as the embodiment of confusion and indeterminacy.

Reviews

‘At the heart of Constructions of ‘the Jew’ is the admirable attempt to locate concerns of ‘race’ not at the margins of English literature, but at its very centre … Cheyette brings together issues connected with ‘race’, culture, history and writing in a fascinating way … This is analysis at the cutting edge of the interface between literature and politics.’

Max Silverman Source: New Statesman & Society

‘To read this book is to be reminded that even the stalest dust can still be noxious.’

Frederic Raphael Source: Spectator

‘A new, ground-breaking study … a new way of reading the image of ‘the Jew’ in British high culture as well as Jewish high culture in Britain, and the author and Cambridge University Press are both to be commended for it.’

Sander L. Gilman Source: Jewish Quarterly.

‘Cheyette gives a scrupulous account of the much-discussed anti-Semitic representations in Eliot’s poetry.’

Patrick Parrinder Source: London Review of Books

‘Rather than poetic licence, Cheyette relies on impressive scholarship to see well beyond the usual stereotypes of the anti-Semitic writer.’

Clive Sinclair Source: Jewish Chronicle

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