Jewish Presences in English Literature 9780773562622

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Jewish Presences in English Literature
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Deborah Heller

Table of contents :
Contents
Introduction
1 Dangerous Innocence: Chaucer's Prioress and Her Tale
2 Shylock and the Idea of the Jew
3 The Outcast as Villain and Victim: Jews in Dicken's Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend
4 Constructing the Contradiction: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now
5 Jews and Women in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
6 The Jew in James Joyce's Ulysses
7 Literary Jews and the Breakdown of the Medieval Testamental Pattern
Notes
Index
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