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Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jew ish Identity on the Antebellum American Stage by Heather S. Nathans (review)
- Modern Drama
- University of Toronto Press
- Volume 61, Number 3, Fall 2018
- pp. 473-475
- Review
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Abstract:
Based on an astonishing amount of primary research, Heather Nathans's Hideous Characters and Beautiful Pagans is the first book to bring to light the interplay between onstage and offstage representations and perceptions of American Jews in the Antebellum era.