Placeholder text

Go to cart

Victims or Villains

By Turnbull, Malcolm J

Victims or Villains Books

Victims or Villains

0 - Default Title
Description
Portrayed as dubious moneylenders, underworld operatives, megalomaniacs, Bolshevik saboteurs, or unscrupulous war-profiteers, Jewish characters have surfaced in English detective fiction from the very beginning. Starting with Conan Doyle, and focusing on the Golden Age of the genre, Tunrbull uses multiple examples to trace the evolution of Jewish caricature in British crime writing, and examines fictional representations of Jews in relation to burgeoning antisemitic sentiment within British society. Attention is paid to crime writers as wide-ranging as Baroness Orczy, Sydney Horler, R. Austin Freeman, Ngaio Marsh, and S. T. Haymon, and the depiction of Jews by Golden Age giants Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Anthony Berkeley Cox.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
208
Release Date:
1998-10-01
Publication Date:
1998-01-01
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0879727845
ISBN13:
9780879727840
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
286 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
Buy on Amazon
Currently sold out