Masculinity, anti-semitism and early modern English literature : from the satanic to the effeminate Jew / Matthew Biberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biberman, Matthew, 1966-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Women and gender in the early modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Jews in literature.

Antisemitism--England--History--16th century.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--England--History--17th century.

Jews--England--History--16th century.

Jews.

Jews--England--History--17th century.

Antisemitism in literature.

Masculinity in literature.

Satanism in literature.

Sex role in literature.

History.

England.

Physical Description:

xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Pub., [2004]

Contents:

His stones, his daughter, and his ducats : the Jew-devil, the Jew-sissy and the theo-sexual matrix

Madam rabbi : representations of Jewish women in English Renaissance drama

By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men : Donne, Milton and the rise of the Jew-sissy

She proving false, the next I took to wife : divorce law and violence in Jonson, Cary and Milton

He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable : T.S. Eliot and the antisemitic aesthetics of the Milton controversy

When king laugh come he make them all dance : the Gothic reconstitution of the Jew-devil.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-251) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0754650456

OCLC:

54768171