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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792775603321

Autore

Biberman Matthew <1966-, >

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-138-25797-4

1-315-24954-5

1-351-91936-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Women and Gender in the Early Modern World

Disciplina

820.9/3529924

Soggetti

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

Jews in literature

Antisemitism - England - History - 16th century

Antisemitism - England - History - 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. 'His stones, his daughter, and his ducats' : the Jew-devil, the Jew-sissy and the theo-sexual matrix -- 2. 'Madam Rabbi' : representations of Jewish women in English Renaissance drama -- 3. 'By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men' : Donne, Milton and the rise of the Jew-sissy -- 4. 'She proving false, the next I took to wife' : divorce law and violence in Jonson, Cary and Milton -- 5. 'He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable' : T.S. Eliot and the antisemitic aesthetics of the Milton controversy -- 6. 'When king laugh come he make them all dance' : the gothic reconstitution of the Jew-devil.