LEADER 04230nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910827508603321 005 20240418124717.0 010 $a1-281-95901-4 010 $a9786611959012 010 $a0-226-00683-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226006833 035 $a(CKB)1000000000579003 035 $a(EBL)408194 035 $a(OCoLC)476227888 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113273 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11145496 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113273 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10099121 035 $a(PQKB)10172873 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119050 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408194 035 $a(DE-B1597)524002 035 $a(OCoLC)304436367 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226006833 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408194 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266060 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL195901 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000579003 100 $a20070606d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBlood relations$b[electronic resource] $eChristian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice /$fJanet Adelman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2008 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-00681-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aShylock (Fictitious character) 606 $aChristians in literature 606 $aJews in literature 606 $aAntisemitism in literature 606 $aReligion in literature 610 $awilliam shakespeare, play, drama, the merchant of venice, 16th century, large loan, money, finances, christian, christianity, jew, jewish, judaism, religion, religious representation, moneylender, shylock, humanity, mercy, english, literature, literary, familial terms, tension, conversion, anxiety, guilt, dependence, renaissance england, characters, character study, race, national, nation, antisemitism, antonio, fiction, fictional. 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aReligion and literature$xHistory 615 0$aShylock (Fictitious character) 615 0$aChristians in literature. 615 0$aJews in literature. 615 0$aAntisemitism in literature. 615 0$aReligion in literature. 676 $a822.3/3 700 $aAdelman$b Janet$0457519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827508603321 996 $aBlood relations$93917381 997 $aUNINA