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Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question - A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859-1913 (Hardcover)
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question - A Victorian English Novelist and the Worlds of Anglo-Jewry, Zionism and Judaism, 1859-1913 (Hardcover)
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon and the Jewish Question investigates the
representation of Jewish characters in 70 of the prolific and
wildly popular Mrs Braddon's novels from the mid 19th c to the eve
of World War One. This study considers how Braddon changes her
descriptions across this timeframe and argues that these changes
are reflective of the changing social and economic status of the
Anglo-Jewish population. Braddon's work engages with such broad
themes as conversion to Christianity, the beginnings of the Zionist
movement, as well as the different migrations of Jews to England
from continental Europe, Eurasia and the Middle East among other
considerations. Mrs Braddon was called a "sensation writer" and her
work was widely read and widely influential despite being
considered outre by the more genteel elements of the literary
establishment. The is the first research monograph to look at
Braddon's work dealing with religion and focusing on English
Judaism. The large number of titles and the time period, which was
arguably the most dynamic for the Jewish community in Britain,
provides a unique picture of a popular novelist and a key social
question that attracted the interest of Victorian and Edwardian
readers and literary commentators. This study also provides a new
standpoint from which to view "sensation" fiction, of which Braddon
was a chief exponent, by suggesting how the novels definitely
reflect the changing status and fortune of the Anglo-Jewish
community. During the nineteenth century and even up the present
day some critics have viewed sensation fiction as being ephemeral
and somewhat salacious so the approach Ruth Morris has taken is
markedly different and suggests that Braddon's novels are superb
markers in social history and the development of themes embraced
later by Bennett, Wells and Walpole.
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