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“Something Dreadful and Grand”: American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious, Stephen Watt

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  • Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the journal’s standard double blind peer-review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review

  • The two remarks display a radical ambivalence about Jewish-Irish connections for which Watt, a well-known scholar of Irish and American drama, borrows Zygmunt Bauman’s term “alloSemitism” to denote a radical ambivalence towards Jews and coins the corresponding term “allo-Hibernianism” to describe a parallel ambiv­ alence towards Irish people

  • A special feature is attention to immigrants in the works of John

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Peer Review: This article has been peer reviewed through the journal’s standard double blind peer-review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review. ‘“Something Dreadful and Grand”: American Literature and the Irish-Jewish Unconscious, Stephan Watt.’ Jewish Historical Studies, 2017, 49(1): 21, pp. Open Access: Jewish Historical Studies is a peer-reviewed open access journal.

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