Judaism and Heterogeneity in the Modernist Long Novel

This paper explores how Judaism is represented in non-Jewish writers of the nineteenth-century (outstandingly, Walter Scott and George Eliot) and in modernist long novels, such as those by Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Alfred Döblin, Robert Musil, and Thomas Mann, and, in the Latin...

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Published inModernist cultures Vol. 10; no. 3; p. 357
Main Author Tambling, Jeremy
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 01.11.2015
Subjects
19th century
Antisemitism
Heterogeneity
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Judaism
Memory
Modernism
Narratives
Novels
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Summary:This paper explores how Judaism is represented in non-Jewish writers of the nineteenth-century (outstandingly, Walter Scott and George Eliot) and in modernist long novels, such as those by Dorothy Richardson, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Alfred Döblin, Robert Musil, and Thomas Mann, and, in the Latin American novel, Carlos Fuentes and Roberto Bolaño. It finds a relationship between the length of the ‘long’ novel, as a meaningful category in itself (not to be absorbed into other modernist narratives), and the interest that these novels have in Judaism, and in anti-semitism (e.g. in the Dreyfus affair) as something which cannot be easily assimilated into the narratives which the writers mentioned are interested in. The paper investigates the implications of this claim for reading these texts.
ISSN:2041-1022
1753-8629
DOI:10.3366/mod.2015.0119