LEADER 04926nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910787521703321 005 20211217014930.0 010 $a0-8122-0255-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202557 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418360 035 $a(EBL)3442239 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11598083 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11113733 035 $a(PQKB)11758676 035 $a(OCoLC)859161757 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27356 035 $a(DE-B1597)449113 035 $a(OCoLC)979591618 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202557 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442239 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748829 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442239 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418360 100 $a20031030d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGender and Jewish difference from Paul to Shakespeare$b[electronic resource] /$fLisa Lampert 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aThe Middle Ages series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8122-3775-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$t1. Introduction: Made, Not Born --$t2. The Hermeneutics of Difference --$t3. Reprioritizing the Prioress's Tale --$t4. Creating the Christian in Late Medieval East Anglian Drama --$t5. "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" Exegesis and Identity in The Merchant of Venice --$tConclusion --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aAlthough representations of medieval Christians and Christianity are rarely subject to the same scholarly scrutiny as those of Jews and Judaism, "the Christian" is as constructed a term, category, and identity as "the Jew." Medieval Christian authors created complex notions of Christian identity through strategic use of representations of Others: idealized Jewish patriarchs or demonized contemporary Jews; Woman represented as either virgin or whore. In Western thought, the Christian was figured as spiritual and masculine, defined in opposition to the carnal, feminine, and Jewish. Women and Jews are not simply the Other for the Christian exegetical tradition, however; they also represent sources of origin, as one cannot conceive of men without women or of Christianity without Judaism. The bifurcated representations of Woman and Jew found in the literature of the Middle Ages and beyond reflect the uneasy figurations of women and Jews as both insiders and outsiders to Christian society. Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare provides the first extended examination of the linkages of gender and Jewish difference in late medieval and early modern English literature. Focusing on representations of Jews and women in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, selections from medieval drama, and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Lampert explores the ways in which medieval and early modern authors used strategies of opposition to-and identification with-figures of Jews and women to create individual and collective Christian identities. This book shows not only how these questions are interrelated in the texts of medieval and early modern England but how they reveal the distinct yet similarly paradoxical places held by Woman and Jew within a longer tradition of Western thought that extends to the present day. 410 0$aMiddle Ages Series 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aJews in literature 606 $aChristian drama, English$zEngland$zEast Anglia$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish drama$yTo 1500$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature 606 $aSex role in literature 606 $aReligion in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aJewish Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aReligion. 610 $aReligious Studies. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aJews in literature. 615 0$aChristian drama, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish drama$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aSex role in literature. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 676 $a820.9/8924 700 $aLampert-Weissig$b Lisa$0592869 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787521703321 996 $aGender and Jewish difference from Paul to Shakespeare$91000608 997 $aUNINA