The temple of culture : assimilation and anti-Semitism in literary Anglo-America / Jonathan Freedman...
The temple of culture : assimilation and anti-Semitism in literary Anglo-America / Jonathan Freedman...
The temple of culture : assimilation and anti-Semitism in literary Anglo-America / Jonathan Freedman.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Date
2000.
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N305.8924/25
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English
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Physical content
vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. The Jew in the Museum -- 2. The Temple of Culture and the Market for Letters: The Jew and the Way We Write Now -- 3. The Mania of the Middlebrow: Trilby, the Jew, and the Middlebrow Imaginary -- 4. Henry James and the Discourses of Anti-Semitism -- 5. Henry James among the Jews -- Coda: Beyond th...
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2000.
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Summary
"From Matthew Arnold's time to our own, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally interwined with each other. This book studies the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition." "Concl...
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The temple of culture : assimilation and anti-Semitism in literary Anglo-America / Jonathan Freedman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-255) and index.
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N305.8924/25
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ISBN
0195151992
9780195131574 (acid-free paper)
0195131576 (acid-free paper)
9780195131574 :
0195131576 :
9780195151992
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305.8924073
820.935203924
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991013023169702626
