Anti–Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830 (Johns Hopkins Jewish Studies) - Softcover

Felsenstein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801861799 ISBN 13: 9780801861796

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999

Synopsis

In Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, Felsenstein focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" eighteenth century, from roughly 1660 through 1830. He describes the persistence through the period of certain negative biases that, in many cases, can be traced back at least to the late Middle Ages. Felsenstein finds evidence of these biases in a wide range of primary sources-chapbooks, ephemeral pamphlets, tracts, jest books, prints, folklore, proverbial expressions, and so on, as well as in the products of higher culture. With the advent of the nineteenth century, however, he sees a gradual development of more liberal attitudes in English society, "inchmeal evidence of the loosening hold upon the collective imagination of medieval beliefs concerning the Jews."

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About the Author

Frank Felsenstein was a reader in Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Leeds and is now Yeshiva College Director of the Honors Program at Yeshiva University, New York. He is the author of Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Edition details

• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801861799
• ISBN 13: 9780801861796
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376