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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449953603321

Autore

Freedman Jonathan <1954->

Titolo

The temple of culture : assimilation and anti-Semitism in literary Anglo-America / / Jonathan Freedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, England : , : Oxford University Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-280-47276-6

0-19-535122-3

1-60256-393-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

305.8924073

Soggetti

Jews - United States - Intellectual life

Jews - Cultural assimilation - United States

American literature - Jewish authors - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; ONE: The Jew in the Museum; TWO: The Temple of Culture and the Market for Letters: The Jew and the Way We Write Now; THREE: The Mania of the Middlebrow: Trilby, the Jew, and the Middlebrow Imaginary; FOUR: Henry James and the Discourses of Anti-Semitism; FIVE: Henry James among the Jews; Coda: Beyond the Battle of the Blooms; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was one of the most eminent and prolific psychologists of the 20th century. Over his long career he published a dozen books, including classics such as Childhood and Society; Identity, Youth, and Crisis; and Young Man Luther . He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1970 for his biography Gandhi's Truth. It was also in 1970, when he retired from Harvard University, that Erikson began to rethink his earlier theories of development. He became increasingly occupied with the conflicts and challenges of adulthood--a shift from his earlier writings o