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Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature

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  • © 2004

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  1. Carol Margaret Davison

    1. University of Windsor, Canada

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Nation and the Spectral Wandering Jew

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Contested Enlightenment, the Contested Castle

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 15-33

  4. The Primal Scene: The Skeleton in Britain’s Closet

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 34-54

  5. Cabalistic Conspiracies and the Crypto-Jew

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 55-86

  6. The Rise of the Vampiric Wandering Jew: A Sinister German-English Co-Production

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 87-119

  7. Britain, Vampire Empire: Fin-de-Siècle Fears and Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 120-157

  8. Afterword: Pathological Projection and the Nazi Nightmare

    • Carol Margaret Davison
    Pages 158-165

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 166-227
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Anti-Semitism and British Gothic Literature examines the Gothic's engagement with the Jewish Question and British national identity over the course of a century. Beginning with an exploration of Jewish demonology from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, Davison interprets the changing significance of the trans-national Wandering Jew in classic Gothic fiction who later migrates into Victorian realism. What emerges is the elucidation of an anti-Semitic 'spectropoetics' that convey how the spectres of Jewish difference and Jewish assimilation haunt British literature.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Windsor, Canada

    Carol Margaret Davison

About the author

CAROL MARGARET DAVISON is Acting Director of Women's Studies and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Windsor, Canada. She has authored numerous articles on women's writing, Gothic, Victorian, postcolonial and African-American literature, and is the editor of the award-winning study, Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century, 1897-1997. She is currently working on a monograph on the Scottish Gothic literary tradition.

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