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Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is bound in green cloth, with stamped gilt lettering tos spine. Book is like new. Price-clipped dust jacket displays chip at top edge of spine panel and otherwise exhibits very light shelfwear. viii/388 pages."The extraordinarily brilliant and original treatment of this theme brings to life some of the most vivid characters in the English novel -- Isaac and Rebecca, Fagin, Melmotte, Deronda, Svengali. Centering his attention on nineteenth-century fiction, the author not only traces the main elements of the stereotype -- the Jew as mutilator, bogey, petty thief and colossal parasite -- but also offers fresh appraisals of the novelists themselves. Along the way he examines a number of works that have not before received critical attention: Scott's "The Surgeon's Daughter," Edgeworth's "Harrington," and Bulwer's "My Novel."Centuries before Shakespeare gave classic expression to the myth of the Jewish criminal, the type had been established in dramatic and… Read More