Jewish Presences in English Literature

152 Pages·1990·8.701 MB·English

by  Derek Cohen, Deborah Heller

Jewish Presences
Illustration to the original edition of Oliver Twist,
Jewish Presences
in English
Literature
EDITED BY
DEREK COHEN AND
DEBORAH HELLER
McGill-Queen's University Press
Montreal & Kingston . London • Buffalo
McGill-Queen's University Press 1990
ISBN 0-7735-0781-7
Legal deposit fourth quarter 1990
Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec
Printed in Canada on acid-free paper
This book has been published with the help of a
grant from the Canadian Federation for the
Humanities, using funds provided by the Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada.
Material used in chapter 4 appeared in an earlier
form in The Shakespeare Quarterly 31, no. 1
(Spring 1980): 53—64. Material used in chapter 7
appeared in an earlier, briefer form as "George
Eliot's Jewish Feminist" in Atlantis 8, no. 2
(Spring/Printemps 1983): 37-43.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Jewish presences in English literature
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 0-7735-0781-7
1. English literature — History and
criticism. 2. Jews in literature. I. Cohen,
Derek. II. Heller, Deborah, 1939-
PR151J5J49 1990 820.9'35203924
C90-090276-0
This book was typeset by Typo Litho composition
inc. in 10/12 Binny on 2506 picas.
To Anita and Barney Cohen
To Bertha Ann Heller
and the memory of Isaiah Heller
and Jules and Daniel
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Contents
Introduction
DEREK COHEN AND
DEBORAH HELLER 3
1 Dangerous Innocence: Chaucer's
Prioress and Her Tale
ALLEN C. KORETSKY 10
2 Shylock and the Idea of the Jew
DEREK COHEN 25
3 The Outcast as Villain and Victim:
Jews in Dicken's Oliver Twist and
Our Mutual Friend
DEBORAH HELLER 40
4 Constructing the Contradiction:
Anthony Trollope's
The Way We Live Now
DEREK COHEN 61
5 Jews and Women in George Eliot's
Daniel Deronda
DEBORAH HELLER 76
6 The Jew in James Joyce's Ulysses
HARRY GIRLING 96
7 Literary Jews and the Breakdown of the
Medieval Testamental Pattern
ROSS G. ARTHUR 113
viii Contents
Notes 129
Index 141
Contributors 143
Jewish Presences