{"product_id":"sensationalism-and-the-jew-in-antebellum-american-literature-hardcover","title":"Sensationalism and the Jew in Antebellum American Literature - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Anthony\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the charged but mostly overlooked presence of the sensational Jew in antebellum literature. This stereotyped character appears primarily in the pulpy sensation fiction of popular writers like George Lippard, Ned Buntline, Emerson Bennett, and others. But this figure also plays an important role in the sometimes sensational work of canonical writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Walt Whitman. Whatever the medium, this character, always overdetermined, does consistent cultural work. This book contends that, as the figure who embodies money and capitalism in the antebellum imagination, the sensational Jew is the character who most fully represents a felt anxiety about the increasingly unstable nature of a range of social categories in the antebellum US, \u003cem\u003eand\u003c\/em\u003e the sense of loss and self-hatred so often lurking in the background of modern Gentile identity. Each chapter examines a different form of sensationalism (urban gothic; sentimental city mysteries; anti-Tom plantation narratives; etc.), and a different set of anxieties (threats to class status; collapsing regional identity; the uncertain status of Whiteness and other racial categories; etc.). Throughout, the sensational Jew acts both as a figure of proteophobia (fear of disorder and ambivalence), and as the figure who embodies in uncanny form a more fulfilling and socially coherent form of identity that predates the modern liberal selfhood of the post-Enlightenment world. The sensational Jew is therefore a revealing figure in antebellum culture, as well as an important antecedent to contemporary antisemitism in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Anthony, \u003cem\u003eProfessor and Director of the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities, SIU Carbondale\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Anthony is Professor and Director of the School of Literature, Writing, and Digital Humanities at SIU Carbondale. He received his PhD at the University of Michigan. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePaper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America\u003c\/em\u003e, and various articles on antebellum literature in venues such as \u003cem\u003eALH\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Yale Journal of Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. Anthony has also published a novel, entitled \u003cem\u003eSomething for Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 04, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52984784126259,"sku":"9780192871732","price":160.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/B1_-aySBBv9780192871732.webp?v=1768981919","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/sensationalism-and-the-jew-in-antebellum-american-literature-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}