Aaron S. Kaiserman holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa and has taught courses in general fiction and children’s literature. This monograph expands on his doctoral thesis on the evolution of Jewish portrayals. His publications include: "‘Wandering through Bowers Beloved’: The Wandering Jew and the Woman Poet in Caroline Norton’s The Undying One". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 11.1 (Spring 2015); and "(De)Radicalism: Rootlessness and the Subversive Power of Money in Godwin’s Caleb Williams and St Leon". Lumen Vol. 32 (2013).

• ContentsIntroduction: "What is a Jew?": Stereotypes, Realism and the Construction of Character I. Shylock’s Metamorphoses and the Jew Bill Controversy II. The Political Valences of Jews in the Revolutionary Decade III. Radical Selfhood: the Jew as Anti-hero IV. Historicizing Jewish National Character V. Anglo-Jews, or Jews in England? Conclusion: The Shifting Ground of Jewish Representation

Aaron S. Kaiserman holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa and has taught courses in general fiction and children’s literature. This monograph expands on his doctoral thesis on the evolution of Jewish portrayals. His publications include: "‘Wandering through Bowers Beloved’: The Wandering Jew and the Woman Poet in Caroline Norton’s The Undying One". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 11.1 (Spring 2015); and "(De)Radicalism: Rootlessness and the Subversive Power of Money in Godwin’s Caleb Williams and St Leon". Lumen Vol. 32 (2013).

• ContentsIntroduction: "What is a Jew?": Stereotypes, Realism and the Construction of Character I. Shylock’s Metamorphoses and the Jew Bill Controversy II. The Political Valences of Jews in the Revolutionary Decade III. Radical Selfhood: the Jew as Anti-hero IV. Historicizing Jewish National Character V. Anglo-Jews, or Jews in England? Conclusion: The Shifting Ground of Jewish Representation

Aaron S. Kaiserman holds a PhD from the University of Ottawa and has taught courses in general fiction and children’s literature. This monograph expands on his doctoral thesis on the evolution of Jewish portrayals. His publications include: "‘Wandering through Bowers Beloved’: The Wandering Jew and the Woman Poet in Caroline Norton’s The Undying One". Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Vol. 11.1 (Spring 2015); and "(De)Radicalism: Rootlessness and the Subversive Power of Money in Godwin’s Caleb Williams and St Leon". Lumen Vol. 32 (2013).

• ContentsIntroduction: "What is a Jew?": Stereotypes, Realism and the Construction of Character I. Shylock’s Metamorphoses and the Jew Bill Controversy II. The Political Valences of Jews in the Revolutionary Decade III. Radical Selfhood: the Jew as Anti-hero IV. Historicizing Jewish National Character V. Anglo-Jews, or Jews in England? Conclusion: The Shifting Ground of Jewish Representation