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Intermarriage in Anthony Trollope's fiction.
From: Midstream
Date: 20041101
Author:Kerker, Milton
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), in three of his novels, dealt with love and marriage between Jew and Christian in a way that broke with the stereotypical fixation on this subject stemming from Christopher Marlowe's The Jew of Malta (1589) and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (1592). Numerous later authors perpetuated the model in which a beautiful Jewess accepts a Christian lover and converts to Christianity in defiance of her utterly vile, money-grubbing Jewish father who frequently comes to no good end. (1)
Even Grace Aguilar, the distinguished Jewish writer and ...
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