Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902-1939
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (906 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230391664 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 269 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Focusing on the years prior to World War II, Trubowitz shows how civil antisemitism was essential both to the dissemination of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, and to structural and stylistic practices within literary modernism. This book sheds new light on 'civil antisemitism' in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric shaped by longstanding traditions of etiquette and civility. The book includes chapters on Djuna Barnes, Wyndham Lewis, and Virginia Woolf, early twentieth-century immigration legislation, fascist conspiracy novels, and contemporary far-right groups such as the English Defence League.
Lara Trubowitz is the co-editor of Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture and co-editor and co-translator of Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual Anthology. Her work on British and American modernism and Jewish Studies has appeared in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies and Twentieth-Century Literature.
Compelling C.K. This beautifully written book is both compelling and intriguing: a timely addition to the growing body of Modernist studies of twentieth-century Judaism. It is also a rather virtuosic combination of formalist and new historical methodology.
"Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902-1939 contains some crucial insights into our study of antisemitism and modernism. It is a worthy book because its methodology serves as a model for further investigations into the impact of Jews and Jewishness on Woolf and her modernist contemporaries." - Woolf Studies Annual. Civil Antisemitism moves us away from the discussion of Jewish stereotype to a method that reveals a hidden and complicated rhetoric regarding Jews, and it opens up a new realm of investigation for those interested in Woolf and Jews