This book addresses the development of 'civil' anti-Semitism in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and often critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric that, prior to 1934, was essential to the legitimization of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, as well as stylistic practices within literary modernism.

Autorentext
Lara Trubowitz is an assistant professor of English at the University of Iowa.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments * Introduction: Conspiring to Be Civil: Jews, Antisemitism, and British Civility, 18811939 * Acting Like an Alien: The Rhetoricized Jew in British Immigration Law, 19021914 * Philosemitic Fascists and the Conspiracy Novel * In Search of 'the Jew' in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood * Interlude I: From Courtesy to Etiquette to the 'Uncivil' Jew * Concealing Leonard's Nose: Virginia Woolf, Antisemitism, and 'The Duchess and the Jeweller' * Interlude II: Civil Antisemitism and the Jewish Refugee Crisis of the 1930s * Wyndham Lewis: Jewish Antisemites and Tolerant Britons in the Era of the Jewish Refugee * Conclusion: Conspiring to Be Civil in the Contemporary Moment: The English Defence League