1st Edition
Evolutions of Jewish Character in British Fiction Nor Yet Redeemed
Contents
Introduction: "What is a Jew?": Stereotypes, Realism and the
Construction of Character
I. Shylock’s Metamorphoses and the Jew Bill Controversy
II. The Political Valences of Jews in the Revolutionary Decade
III. Radical Selfhood: the Jew as Anti-hero
IV. Historicizing Jewish National Character
V. Anglo-Jews, or Jews in England?
Conclusion: The Shifting Ground of Jewish Representation
Biography
Aaron S. Kaiserman holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa and has taught courses in general fiction and children’s literature. This monograph expands on his doctoral thesis on the evolution of Jewish portrayals. His publications include: "‘Wandering through Bowers Beloved’: The Wandering Jew and the Woman Poet in Caroline Norton’s The Undying One". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 11.1 (Spring 2015); and "(De)Radicalism: Rootlessness and the Subversive Power of Money in Godwin’s Caleb Williams and St Leon". Lumen Vol. 32 (2013).
