This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. Cover -- "Something Dreadful and...
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This book traces the often uncanny relationships between Irish- and Jewish-America, arguing for the centrality of these two diasporic groups to the development of American popular music, fiction, and especially drama. Cover -- "Something Dreadful and Grand" -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Performing the Irish-Jewish Unconscious -- 2 The Cultural Work of Immigrant Melodrama -- 3 Allo-Semitism and the Performative Uncanny: Leah and Shylock, Svengali and the Count of Monte Cristo -- 4 The Jewish-Irish Modern American Drama -- 5 The New Wandering Rocks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
