This 1889 study of literature and history investigates positive and negative depictions of the Jewish people from Elizabethan times onward. Works discussed include Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Cumberland’s The Jew, Scott’s Ivanhoe, Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend, Disraeli’s Coningsby and Tancred, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.

This 1889 study of literature and history investigates positive and negative depictions of the Jewish people from Elizabethan times onward. Works discussed include Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Cumberland’s The Jew, Scott’s Ivanhoe, Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend, Disraeli’s Coningsby and Tancred, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.

This 1889 study of literature and history investigates positive and negative depictions of the Jewish people from Elizabethan times onward. Works discussed include Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Cumberland’s The Jew, Scott’s Ivanhoe, Dickens’s Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend, Disraeli’s Coningsby and Tancred, and George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda.