Between `Race' and Culture
Subtitle: Representations of `the Jew' in English and American Literature (Stanford Studies in Jewish History and C)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: October 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780804726351
Subjects: Politics/International Relations; Literary Criticism; Special Subjects In Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature; American literature; Antisemitism in literature; History and criticism; Jews in literature
First sentence: Midway through her aimless "ramble" across London in search of a "lead pencil," Virginia Woolf is shocked into a recognition of the poverty and misery that separate her irrevocably from the "hunger-bitten" "bearded Jew" and the homeless "old woman" whom she accidentally stumbles across.