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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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.