Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature Anthony David
Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature Anthony David This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. But this…
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Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature Anthony David
This book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. But this figure also plays an important role in the sometimes sensational work of canonical writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others.
This book contends that, as the figure who embodies money and capitalism in the antebellum imagination, the sensational Jew is the character who most fully represents a felt anxiety about the increasingly unstable nature of a range of social categories in the antebellum US, and the sense of loss and self-hatred so often lurking in the background of modern Gentile Whatever the medium, this character, always overdetermined, does consistent cultural work.