Monstrous fellowship : "Pagan, Turk, and Jew" in English popular culture, 1780-1845 / Toni Wein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wein, Toni, 1952- author.

Series:

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century ; 6.

Writing and culture in the long nineteenth century ; 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews in literature.

Muslims in literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.

English drama--19th century--History and criticism.

English drama.

Theater--England--History--19th century.

Theater.

Prejudices.

History.

Stereotypes (Social psychology).

Popular culture.

Literature and society.

England.

Literature and society--Great Britain.

Popular culture--England--History--19th century.

Stereotypes (Social psychology)--England--History--19th century.

Prejudices--England--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

"Pagan, Turk, and Jew" in English popular culture, 1780-1845

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2018.

Summary:

"This book brings together a range of texts and events: nineteenth-century novels and plays, riots on the streets and stages of London, popular games, artwork, criminal profiles and political economy. Tying these topics together is the spectacle created around 'Pagan, Turk and Jew', a phrase appearing as early as 1548, and one that came to denominate fictional stand-ins for Irish Catholics, Muslims and Jews during the long nineteenth century. Beginning with the Gordon riots of 1780, these 'Others' were objectified as exotic bodies and used oppositionally against one another, both in policy and legislation and in cultural representations. Surveying literary works by Maria Edgeworth and Charles Dickens, as well as the work of lesser known figures such as Richard Cumberland, John Thomas Smith and Patrick Colquhoun, the author probes the links between those contests in both real and virtual spaces in order to study the role played by racial marking and ethnic stereotyping in the solidification of a post-riot British social body. Unlike other studies of minority experience and culture that concern a single population, this book casts a wider net, believing racist and religious bias to be a reactionary dynamic, prey to a host of struggles occurring simultaneously that ricochet off one another in the contestatory culture of the Romantic era" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Red Jews and Northern Hordes: George Gordon and the Riots p. 31

Chapter 2 The Racial Geography of Political Economy p. 67

Chapter 3 Moving Shadows: Theatre and the Play of Ethnicity p. 119

Chapter 4 The Counterfeit Real p. 155

Chapter 5 Reinventing Abraham p. 203

Chapter 6 Razing Gordon's Ghost p. 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781787078840

1787078841

OCLC:

1035263089

Publisher Number:

99982483319