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"Something dreadful and grand" : American literature and the Irish-Jewish unconscious / Stephen Watt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watt, Stephen, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Irish influences.
- Jews in literature.
- Irish in literature.
- Popular music--United States--Irish influences.
- Popular music--United States--Jewish influences.
- United States--Civilization--Irish influences.
- United States--Civilization--Jewish influences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (270 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-Americans, arguing for the centrality of these diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. The book reads such cultural forms as tenement fiction, Tin Pan Alley music, and melodrama as part of a larger 'circum-North Atlantic' world in which texts and performers from Ireland, Europe, and America were involved in a continuous cultural exchange within which stereotypes and performances of Jewishness and Irishness took centre stage.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Performing the Irish Jewish unconscious
- The cultural work of immigrant melodrama
- Allo-semitism and the performative uncanny: Leah and Shylock, Svengali and The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Jewish-Irish modern American drama
- The new wandering rocks.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-027299-6
- 0-19-022797-4
- 0-19-022796-6
- OCLC:
- 922973366
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