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Crypto-Judaism, madness, and the female Quixote : Charlotte Lennox as Marrana in mid-eighteenth-century England
- Title
- Crypto-Judaism, madness, and the female Quixote : Charlotte Lennox as Marrana in mid-eighteenth-century England / Norman Simms.
- Author
- Simms, Norman Toby
- Publication
- Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR3541.L27 S57 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xi, 372 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in British literature ; v. 80
- Uniform Title
- Studies in British literature ; v. 80.
- Subjects
- Jewish women in literature
- Women and literature > England > History > 18th century
- Mentally ill in literature
- Judaism in literature
- Jews in literature
- Persona (Literature)
- Picaresque literature, English > History and criticism
- Lennox, Charlotte, approximately 1729-1804 > Criticism and interpretation
- Satire, English > History and criticism
- Feminist fiction, English > History and criticism
- Christian converts from Judaism > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 354-368) and index.
- Contents
- Preface / Joseph Levi -- Ch. 1. Two backgrounds and a hazy foreground -- Ch. 2. A disconcerting overview -- Ch. 3. Aesthetics, ethics and Arabella's metal illness -- Ch. 4. The double assault on Arabella's integrity : delusion and reason -- Ch. 5. Madness or marranism : masking, secrecy and illusion -- Ch. 6. Changing depictions of mental illness : seventeenth & eighteenth century -- Ch. 7. Arabella at the inquisition -- Ch. 8. Hiding from the inquisition -- Ch. 9. An inconclusive conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0773464999
- LCCN
- 2003071010
- OCLC
- ocm54005828
- SCSB-4883612
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries