{"product_id":"blood-relations-janet-adelman-9780226006819","title":"Blood Relations: Christian and Jew in the Merchant of Venice","description":"In \u003ci\u003eBlood Relations\u003c\/i\u003e, Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen, she argues that Shakespeare's play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew specifically in familial terms in order to recapitulate the vexed familial relationship between Christianity and Judaism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAdelman locates the promise--or threat--of Jewish conversion as a particular site of tension in the play. Drawing on a variety of cultural materials, she demonstrates that, despite the triumph of its Christians, \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice\u003c\/i\u003e reflects Christian anxiety and guilt about its simultaneous dependence on and disavowal of Judaism. In this startling psycho-theological analysis, both the insistence that Shylock's daughter Jessica remain racially bound to her father after her conversion and the depiction of Shylock as a bloody-minded monster are understood as antidotes to Christian uneasiness about a Judaism it can neither own nor disown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn taking seriously the religious discourse of \u003ci\u003eThe Merchant of Venice, \u003c\/i\u003eAdelman offers in \u003ci\u003eBlood Relations \u003c\/i\u003ean indispensable book on the play and on the fascinating question of Jews and Judaism in Renaissance England and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Adelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226006816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226006819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.33w x 0.81d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2008 pg. 18","brand":"Janet Adelman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086387687679,"sku":"9780226006819","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8cf140d4-cfa5-4a50-a487-544d0f8cf374.jpg?v=1769094389","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/blood-relations-janet-adelman-9780226006819","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}