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Auteur(s) : Lavezzo, Kathy (1965-....)
Titre(s) : The accommodated Jew [Texte imprimé] : English antisemitism from Bede to Milton / Kathy Lavezzo
Publication : Ithaca (N.Y.) ; London : Cornell university press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-374 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Sepulchral Jews and stony Christians : supersession in Bede and Cynewulf ; Medieval
urban noir : the Jewish house, the Christian mob, and the city in post-conquest England
; The minster and the privy : Jews, lending and the making of Christian space in Chaucer's
England ; In the shadow of Moyse's hall : Jews, the city, and commerce in the Croxton
play of the sacrament ; Failures of fortification and the counting houses of The
Jew of Malta ; Readmission and displacement : Menasseh ben Israel, William Prynne,
John Milton.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 325-360. Index
England during the Middle Ages was at the forefront of European antisemitism. It was
in medieval Norwich that the notorious "blood libel" was first introduced when a resident
accused the city's Jewish leaders of abducting and ritually murdering a local boy.
England also enforced legislation demanding that Jews wear a badge of infamy, and
in 1290, it became the first European nation to expel forcibly all of its Jewish residents.
In 'The Accommodated Jew', Kathy Lavezzo rethinks the complex and contradictory relation
between England?s rejection of?the Jew? and the centrality of Jews to classic English
literature. Drawing on literary, historical, and cartographic texts, she charts an
entangled Jewish imaginative presence in English culture. 00In a sweeping view that
extends from the Anglo-Saxon period to the late seventeenth century, Lavezzo tracks
how English writers from Bede to Milton imagine Jews via buildings?tombs, latrines
and especially houses?that support fantasies of exile. Epitomizing this trope is the
blood libel and its implication that Jews cannot be accommodated in England because
of the anti-Christian violence they allegedly perform in their homes. In the Croxton
Play of the Sacrament, Marlowe?s The Jew of Malta, and Shakespeare?s The Merchant
of Venice, the Jewish house not only serves as a lethal trap but also as the site
of an emerging bourgeoisie incompatible with Christian pieties. Lavezzo reveals the
central place of?the Jew? in the slow process by which a Christian?nation of shopkeepers?
negotiated their relationship to the urban capitalist sensibility they came to embrace
and embody. In the book?s epilogue, she advances her inquiry into Victorian England
and the relationship between Charles Dickens (whose Fagin is the second most infamous
Jew in English literature after Shylock) and the Jewish couple that purchased his
London home, Tavistock House, showing how far relations between gentiles and Jews
in England had (and had not) evolved
Sujet(s) : Littérature anglaise -- Moyen âge -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature anglaise -- 16e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Littérature anglaise -- 17e siècle -- Thèmes, motifs
Juifs -- Dans la littérature
Antisémitisme -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781501703157. - ISBN 1501703153 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45194004j
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