Victims or Villains

Victims or Villains Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction

Hardback (30 Jun 2006)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Proceeding from the premise that Jews, negatively depicted according to a range of demeaning stereotypes, are a feature of English crime writing between the two world wars, the author examines why this is so, with reference to recent debate over the profundity of anti-Semitism in Britain, and traces the evolution of fictional Jewish images in the c

Book information

ISBN: 9780879727833
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: Popular Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.08720935203924
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 499g
Height: 241mm
Width: 159mm
Spine width: 25mm