Anti-semitic stereotypes : a paradigm of otherness in English popular culture, 1660-1830
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Anti-semitic stereotypes : a paradigm of otherness in English popular culture, 1660-1830
（Johns Hopkins Jewish studies）（Johns Hopkins paperbacks）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-337) and index
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Description
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."
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Chronology
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Stereotypes
Chapter 2. Jews and Devils
Chapter 3. Following Readmission: Evolving Stereotypes
Chapter 4. Wandering Jew, Vagabond Jews
Chapter 5. Conversion
Chapter 6. Ceremonies
Chapter 7. "Ev'ry child hates Shylock"
Chapter 8. The Jew Bill
Chapter 9. Toward Emancipation
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
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