The Merchant of Modernism
Subtitle: The Economic Jew in Anglo-American Literature, 1864-1939 (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 6, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780415941099
First sentence: Compared to Fagin, who has been called the second most famous Jewish character in English literature, the kindly moneylender Riah of Our Mutual Friend lives in virtual anonymity.