‘A Curst Little Jew from Duke’s Place’: Daniel Mendoza and the Folkloric Representation of the Jew in Georgian England

IF 0.2 4区社会学 0 FOLKLORE

FOLKLORE Pub Date : 2022-10-02 DOI:10.1080/0015587X.2022.2088953

M. J. Bell

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Abstract

Abstract At the end of the eighteenth century, Daniel Mendoza (1764–1836), a five-feet-seven, 160-pound bare-knuckle Jewish fighter, rose to become the world’s heavyweight champion; England’s first sports superstar; the author of the first book on boxing theory, The Modern Art of Boxing (1789), and of the first sports memoir in history, The Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza (1813); and the first Jew to shake the hand of an English king. This article examines the role that three folkloric communications—a mock-heroic epic, The Odiad (1788); an epistolary sparring contest; and an urban popular ballad—played in shaping his public identity in the boxing community and, consequently, in shaping the place of Jews in late eighteenth-century Georgian social life.

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《来自公爵府的可恶的小犹太人》:丹尼尔·门多萨和乔治时代英格兰犹太人的民俗表现

18世纪末，丹尼尔·门多萨(Daniel Mendoza, 1764-1836)，一个身高5英尺7英寸、体重160磅的犹太拳手，一跃成为世界重量级拳王;英格兰第一位体育巨星;他是第一本关于拳击理论的书《现代拳击艺术》(1789)的作者，也是历史上第一本体育回忆录《丹尼尔·门多萨生平回忆录》(1813)的作者;也是第一个与英国国王握手的犹太人本文考察了三种民间文学传播——模拟英雄史诗《俄狄亚德》(1788);书信对打比赛;一首城市流行民谣塑造了他在拳击界的公众身份，从而塑造了犹太人在18世纪晚期格鲁吉亚社会生活中的地位。

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FOLKLORE FOLKLORE-

CiteScore

0.60

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25.00%

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期刊介绍： A fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. Folklore is one of the earliest journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The Folk-Lore Record in 1878. Folklore publishes ethnographical and analytical essays on vernacular culture worldwide, specializing in traditional narrative, language, music, song, dance, drama, foodways, medicine, arts and crafts, popular religion, and belief. It reviews current studies in a wide range of adjacent disciplines including anthropology, cultural studies, ethnology, history, literature, and religion. Folklore prides itself on its special mix of reviews, analysis, ethnography, and debate; its combination of European and North American approaches to the study of folklore; and its coverage not only of the materials and processes of folklore, but also of the history, methods, and theory of folkloristics. Folklore aims to be lively, informative and accessible, while maintaining high standards of scholarship.