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Masculinity, anti-semitism, and early modern English literature : from the satanic to the effeminate Jew
- Title
- Masculinity, anti-semitism, and early modern English literature : from the satanic to the effeminate Jew / Matthew Biberman.
- Author
- Biberman, Matthew, 1966-
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Pub., ©2004.
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Details
- Description
- xii, 260 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that anti-Semitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman illustrates how modern anti-Semitism develops as a way to stigmatize hypermasculine behavior, thus facilitating the transformation of the culture's gender ideal from knight to businessman. Subsequently, the function of anti-Semitic image changes from Jew-Devil to Jew-Sissy. Biberman traces this shift's repercussions, both in Renaissance culture and what followed it."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Uniform Title
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Subject
- 1500-1700
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Jews in literature
- Antisemitism > England > History > 16th century
- Antisemitism > England > History > 17th century
- Jews > England > History > 16th century
- Jews > England > History > 17th century
- Antisemitism in literature
- Masculinity in literature
- Satanism in literature
- Sex role in literature
- 18.05 English literature
- Antisemitism
- English literature > Early modern
- Jews
- Antisemitismus
- Englisch
- Geschlechterrolle Motiv
- Literatur
- Letterkunde
- Engels
- Antisemitisme
- Joden
- Mannelijkheid
- Sekserol
- Antisemitism > Great Britain > History
- Jews > Great Britain > History > 16th century
- Jews > Great Britain > History > 17th century
- England
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-251) and index.
- Contents
- His stones, his daughter, and his ducats : the Jew-devil, the Jew-sissy and the theo-sexual matrix -- Madam rabbi : representations of Jewish women in English Renaissance drama -- By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men : Donne, Milton and the rise of the Jew-sissy -- She proving false, the next I took to wife : divorce law and violence in Jonson, Cary and Milton -- He is imitating nobody, and he is inimitable : T.S. Eliot and the antisemitic aesthetics of the Milton controversy -- When King Laugh come he make them all dance : the Gothic reconstitution of the Jew-devil.
- ISBN
- 0754650456
- 9780754650454
- LCCN
- 2004005394
- OCLC
- ocm54768171
- 54768171
- SCSB-14523010
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library