Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830 (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0801861799 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 376 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Vincent Carretta Albion) . Felsenstein makes more extensive use than previous writers of ephemeral literaturetracts, periodicals, chapbooks, sermons, and so forth; and he analyses pictorial evidence, which in practice means satirical prints, with as much care as the written word. Two aspects are especially valuable. Intelligent and informative. (John Gross Times Literary Supplement)Felsenstein's book shows just how widespread and persistent stereotyping was and makes available for further analysis a considerable amount of new information, especially pictorial evidence, which he analyzes brilliantly. (James Shapiro Shakespeare Quarterly)Felsenstein's enormously absorbing, fluent yet provocative
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.". 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. 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. Felsenstein find
He was previously Reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds.. Voran Honors Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Ball State University. Frank Felsenstein is the Reed D