Masculinity, Anti-Semitism and Early Modern English Literature: From the Satanic to the Effeminate Jew

by Matthew Biberman

Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that antisemitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity's strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman illustrates how modern antisemitism develops as a way to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138257974
• ISBN13: 9781138257979
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.