Civil antisemitism, modernism, and British culture, 1902-1939 /
Trubowitz, Lara,1966-
"This book focuses on "civil" antisemitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected form of anti-Jewish rhetoric. Civil antisemitism is shaped by a tradition of British civility and etiquette, one that disdains blatant or "vulgar" expressions of bigotry. This preoccupation with courtesy and manners gives rise to techniques for cloaking the virulence of anti-Jewish hostilities--in short, hate rhetoric functioning as "civil" discourse. The book addresses a variety of manifestations of civil antisemitism, including parliamentary debates, ethnographic reportage, fascist fiction and propaganda, and ultimately modernist literature, particularly the work of Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, and Wyndham Lewis"--
"This book focuses on "civil" antisemitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected form of anti-Jewish rhetoric. Civil antisemitism is shaped by a tradition of British civility and etiquette, one that disdains blatant or "vulgar" expressions of bigotry. This preoccupation with courtesy and manners gives rise to techniques for cloaking the virulence of anti-Jewish hostilities--in short, hate rhetoric functioning as "civil" discourse. The book addresses a variety of manifestations of civil antisemitism, including parliamentary debates, ethnographic reportage, fascist fiction and propaganda, and ultimately modernist literature, particularly the work of Djuna Barnes, Virginia Woolf, and Wyndham Lewis"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Conspiring to be civil : Jews, antisemitism, and British civility, 1881-1939 -- 1. Acting like an alien : The rhetoricized jew in british Immigration law, 1902-1914 -- 2. Philosemitic fascists and the conspiracy novel -- 3. In search of "the Jew" in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood -- Interlude I From Courtesy to Etiquette to the "Uncivil" Jew -- 4. Concealing leonard's Nose : Virginia Woolf, antisemitism, and "The duchess and the jeweller" -- Interlude II Civil Antisemitism and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 1930s -- 5. Wyndham Lewis : Jewish Antisemites and Tolerant Britons in the Era of the Jewish Refugee.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
Barnes, Djuna.
Jews in literature.
Antisemitism in literature.
English literature
Antisemitism
Jews
Antisemitism in language.
Modernism (Literature)