03870nam 2200805 a 450 991097226830332120200520144314.09786611959012978128195901012819590149780226006833022600683210.7208/9780226006833(CKB)1000000000579003(EBL)408194(OCoLC)476227888(SSID)ssj0000113273(PQKBManifestationID)11145496(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113273(PQKBWorkID)10099121(PQKB)10172873(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119050(DE-B1597)524002(OCoLC)304436367(DE-B1597)9780226006833(Au-PeEL)EBL408194(CaPaEBR)ebr10266060(CaONFJC)MIL195901(MiAaPQ)EBC408194(Perlego)1851400(EXLCZ)99100000000057900320070606d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBlood relations Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice /Janet Adelman1st ed.Chicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (240 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780226006819 0226006816 Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.Introduction : strangers within Christianity -- Leaving the Jew's house : father, son, and elder brother -- Her father's blood : conversion, race, and nation -- Incising Antonio : the Jew within.In Blood Relations, Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to The Merchant of Venice as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen, she argues that Shakespeare's play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew specifically in familial terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between Christianity and Judaism. Adelman locates the promise-or threat-of Jewish conversion as a particular site of tension in the play. Drawing on a variety of cultural materials, she demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians, The Merchant of Venice reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism. In this startling psycho-theological analysis, both the insistence that Shylock's daughter Jessica remain racially bound to her father after her conversion and the depiction of Shylock as a bloody-minded monster are understood as antidotes to Christian uneasiness about a Judaism it can neither own nor disown. In taking seriously the religious discourse of The Merchant of Venice, Adelman offers in Blood Relations an indispensable book on the play and on the fascinating question of Jews and Judaism in Renaissance England and beyond.Religion and literatureEnglandHistory16th centuryReligion and literatureEnglandHistory17th centuryShylock (Fictitious character)Christians in literatureJews in literatureAntisemitism in literatureReligion in literatureReligion and literatureHistoryReligion and literatureHistoryShylock (Fictitious character)Christians in literature.Jews in literature.Antisemitism in literature.Religion in literature.822.3/3Adelman Janet457519MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910972268303321Blood relations4366651UNINA