Satirizing the Blood Libel: Ritual Cannibalism, Infant Sacrifice, and Bloodied Knives in "A Modest Proposal".
The article discusses fears of cultural, religious, and racial conflations between Anglo Christians and Jews into a potential reality, as traditional accusations against mythologized Jews become realized as proposed economic policy. Topics discussed include critical attention to anti-Semitism in Bri...
| Publicado en: | Rocky Mountain Review of Language & Literature (1948-2833) Vol. 73; no. 2; pp. 119 - 142 |
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Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Fall2019
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| Sumario: | The article discusses fears of cultural, religious, and racial conflations between Anglo Christians and Jews into a potential reality, as traditional accusations against mythologized Jews become realized as proposed economic policy. Topics discussed include critical attention to anti-Semitism in British literature, and absence of a large Jewish population had little effect upon British ideas about Jews. |
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