Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902–1939 [electronic resource] /
Trubowitz, Lara.author.
This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric that, prior to 1934, was essential to the legitimization of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, as well as stylistic practices within literary modernism.
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""Cover""; ""Half-Title""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments                      ""; ""Introduction Conspiring to Be Civil: Jews, Antisemitism, and British Civility, 1881â€?1939                                                                                               ""; ""1 Acting Like an Alien: The Rhetoricized Jew in British Immigration Law, 1902â€?1914                                                                                         ""
""2 Philosemitic Fascists and the Conspiracy Novel                                                       """"3 In Search of â€œthe Jewâ€? in Djuna Barnesâ€?s Nightwood                                                           ""; ""Interlude I: From Courtesy to Etiquette to the â€œUncivilâ€? Jew                                                                   ""; ""4 Concealing Leonardâ€?s Nose: Virginia Woolf, Antisemitism, and â€œThe Duchess and the Jewellerâ€?                                                                                                    ""
""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                                                                                                ""; ""Conclusion Conspiring to Be Civil in the Contemporary Moment: The English Defence League                                                                                               ""; ""Notes            ""; ""Works Cited                  ""
""Index            ""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric that, prior to 1934, was essential to the legitimization of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, as well as stylistic practices within literary modernism.
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941
Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957
Barnes, Djuna.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—History and criticism.
Ethnology—Europe.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
British Culture.