No place in time : the Hebraic myth in late-nineteenth-century American literature /

No place in time: the Hebraic myth in late-nineteenth-century American literature examines how the Hebraic myth, in which Jewishness became a metaphor for an ancient, pre-Christian past, was reimagined in nineteenth-century American realism. The Hebraic myth, while integral to a Protestant understan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Oster, Sharon B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introductions: A figure out of time : the "Hebraic myth" and Christian typology
  • The cyclorama effect : nostalgia, memory, and Jewish time
  • The curiosity shop of time : Henry James cosmopolitanism and "the Jew"
  • Borrowed time : Edith Wharton and fictions in decline
  • The melting pot, intermarriage, and progressive reform
  • Coda: Emma Lazarus and the future of the Jewish problem.