M Lindsay Kaplan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1098728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Lindsay Kaplan |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaplan |
| SIGNATURE | KAPLAN M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University , Washington, DC , USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Coordinating Racisms in The Merchant of Venice
A consideration of the construction of a Jewish racial identity in early and medieval Christian theology, and its coordination with ideas about Africans and Muslims, offers an explanatory lens on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Premodern Christian texts construct powerful antiBlack, anti-Jewish, and anti-Muslim foundational myths that contribute to racial formation by positioning white Christians as superior to damned infidels. These discourses…
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess
In her paradigm-shifting book, Adrienne Williams Boyarin assembles a fascinating array of archival sources—legal, historical, devotional, literary and visual—to consider how sameness, rather than difference, functions as a medieval Anglo-Christian anti-Jewish polemic. Boyarin explores this phenomenon through its gender-inflected representations of male and female Jews, emphatically rejecting any notion that ‘saming’ represents a neutral or more h…
The Merchant of Venice , Jews, and Christians
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Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity
Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity distinguishes itself from other studies of early forms of racism by placing theological discourses at the center of its analysis. It traces an intellectual history of hereditary inferiority as articulated in the Christian doctrine of servitus Judaeorum , Jewish enslavement. This concept develops in Christian Scripture, patristic theology, and medieval exegesis to produce readings of the biblical figures of…
Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. A category of discourse which transgresses the law, it offers a more historically grounded and fluid account of power relations between poets and the state than that offered by the commonly accepted model of official censorship. An investigation of slander reveals it to be an effective, unstable and reversible means of repudiating one's opposition that could…
Blood Relations
Janet Adelman. Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 226 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0–226–00681–9. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
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Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture
Blood Relations
Janet Adelman. Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in The Merchant of Venice. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008. xii + 226 pp. index. bibl. $35. ISBN: 978–0–226–00681–9. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. A category of discourse which transgresses the law, it offers a more historically grounded and fluid account of power relations between poets and the state than that offered by the commonly accepted model of official censorship. An investigation of slander reveals it to be an effective, unstable and reversible means of repudiating one's opposition that could…
Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity
Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity distinguishes itself from other studies of early forms of racism by placing theological discourses at the center of its analysis. It traces an intellectual history of hereditary inferiority as articulated in the Christian doctrine of servitus Judaeorum , Jewish enslavement. This concept develops in Christian Scripture, patristic theology, and medieval exegesis to produce readings of the biblical figures of…
The Merchant of Venice , Jews, and Christians
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess
In her paradigm-shifting book, Adrienne Williams Boyarin assembles a fascinating array of archival sources—legal, historical, devotional, literary and visual—to consider how sameness, rather than difference, functions as a medieval Anglo-Christian anti-Jewish polemic. Boyarin explores this phenomenon through its gender-inflected representations of male and female Jews, emphatically rejecting any notion that ‘saming’ represents a neutral or more h…
Coordinating Racisms in The Merchant of Venice
A consideration of the construction of a Jewish racial identity in early and medieval Christian theology, and its coordination with ideas about Africans and Muslims, offers an explanatory lens on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. Premodern Christian texts construct powerful antiBlack, anti-Jewish, and anti-Muslim foundational myths that contribute to racial formation by positioning white Christians as superior to damned infidels. These discourses…
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