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Jewish Presences Illustration to the original edition of Oliver Twist, Jewish Presences in English Literature EDITED BY DEREK COHEN AND DEBORAH HELLER McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston . London • Buffalo McGill-Queen's University Press 1990 ISBN 0-7735-0781-7 Legal deposit fourth quarter 1990 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Material used in chapter 4 appeared in an earlier form in The Shakespeare Quarterly 31, no. 1 (Spring 1980): 53—64. Material used in chapter 7 appeared in an earlier, briefer form as "George Eliot's Jewish Feminist" in Atlantis 8, no. 2 (Spring/Printemps 1983): 37-43. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Jewish presences in English literature Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-7735-0781-7 1. English literature — History and criticism. 2. Jews in literature. I. Cohen, Derek. II. Heller, Deborah, 1939- PR151J5J49 1990 820.9'35203924 C90-090276-0 This book was typeset by Typo Litho composition inc. in 10/12 Binny on 2506 picas. To Anita and Barney Cohen To Bertha Ann Heller and the memory of Isaiah Heller and Jules and Daniel This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction DEREK COHEN AND DEBORAH HELLER 3 1 Dangerous Innocence: Chaucer's Prioress and Her Tale ALLEN C. KORETSKY 10 2 Shylock and the Idea of the Jew DEREK COHEN 25 3 The Outcast as Villain and Victim: Jews in Dicken's Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend DEBORAH HELLER 40 4 Constructing the Contradiction: Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now DEREK COHEN 61 5 Jews and Women in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda DEBORAH HELLER 76 6 The Jew in James Joyce's Ulysses HARRY GIRLING 96 7 Literary Jews and the Breakdown of the Medieval Testamental Pattern ROSS G. ARTHUR 113 viii Contents Notes 129 Index 141 Contributors 143 Jewish Presences
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