Word: bulwer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosenberg does not attempt a catalogue of all the appearances that Jews make in English literature. He concentrates on a few novelists--Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and George DuMaurier--with extended glances at a few playwrights--Marlowe, Shakespeare and Cumberland. He supplements his close, detailed examination of a sensibly limited number of texts with some attention to medieval plays and ballads, many minor writers, and extra-literary phenomena such as social and political changes...