Nadia Valman. The Jewess in Nineteenth Century British Literary Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. — Page 2:
6 All things considered, this monograph forms an engaging study of nineteenth-century constructions of the Jewess in British literature. While Valman’s scholarship has clearly benefited from gender theory and discourse-analytical approaches, she manages to wear her theoretical erudition lightly, preferring historicisation to insistent theoretical framing, in line with the place of this book in the series of “Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature.” Yet this study will not only interest period specialists. Its wider relevance resides in its analysis of gender definitions and models of femininity in relation to the constitutive discourses of a modern liberal culture: the discourses of tolerance, emancipation, progress, and a scientific modernity which define themselves through, but also meet their defining limits in, the encounter with their “relevant others.”