Shock and Entertain: Gentile‑Jewish Romances from Bohemia, 1830s–1850s
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2020Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaPraha
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Brücken (web)ISSN: 1803-456X
Periodical publication year: 2020
Periodical Volume: 27
Periodical Issue: 1
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Tschechisches Drama, Unterhaltung, Mischehe zwischen Konfessionen, Juden in der Lite‑ ratur, la belle Juive, Melodrama, Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts, Transgression, TrivialkulturThe present study discusses a selection of Czech and German texts from the first half of the nineteenth century that are based on transgressive relationships between Gentiles and Jews. Although belonging to various genres, they can all be interpreted as models of exclusion of Jews from Gentile society. The analysis highlights the use of transgression as a shocking and entertaining concept that ultimately reasserts the status quo of Gentile Jewish relations.