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Blood relations : Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice / / Janet Adelman



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Autore: Adelman Janet Visualizza persona
Titolo: Blood relations : Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice / / Janet Adelman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
Disciplina: 822.3/3
Soggetto topico: Religion and literature - England - History - 16th century
Religion and literature - England - History - 17th century
Shylock (Fictitious character)
Christians in literature
Jews in literature
Antisemitism in literature
Religion in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-212) and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Blood relations  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-95901-4
9786611959012
0-226-00683-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910827508603321
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