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Gender and Jewish difference from Paul to Shakespeare [[electronic resource] /] / Lisa Lampert



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Autore: Lampert-Weissig Lisa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gender and Jewish difference from Paul to Shakespeare [[electronic resource] /] / Lisa Lampert Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
Disciplina: 820.9/8924
Soggetto topico: English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism
Jews in literature
Christian drama, English - England - East Anglia - History and criticism
English drama - To 1500 - History and criticism
Difference (Psychology) in literature
Sex role in literature
Religion in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction: Made, Not Born -- 2. The Hermeneutics of Difference -- 3. Reprioritizing the Prioress's Tale -- 4. Creating the Christian in Late Medieval East Anglian Drama -- 5. "O what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" Exegesis and Identity in The Merchant of Venice -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Sommario/riassunto: Although 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.
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ISBN: 0-8122-0255-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462621103321
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Serie: Middle Ages Series