The Temple of Culture

The Temple of Culture

Author: Jonathan Freedman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2000-02-24

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 019028501X

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From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "culture" have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century England and America, and then considers the efforts on the part of Jewish critics and intellectuals to counter this image in the public sphere. It explores the unexpected parallels and ironic reversals between a cultural dispensation that had ambivalent responses to Jews and Jews who became exponents of that very tradition.


Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction

Aestheticism and the Marriage Market in Victorian Popular Fiction

Author: Kirby-Jane Hallum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 131731798X

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Based on close readings of five Victorian novels, Hallum presents an original study of the interaction between popular fiction, the marriage market and the aesthetic movement. She uses the texts to trace the development of aestheticism, examining the differences between the authors, including their approach, style and gender.