This book sheds new light on 'civil antisemitism' in twentieth-century Britain, a crucial and critically neglected strand of anti-Jewish rhetoric shaped by longstanding traditions of etiquette and civility. Focusing on the years prior to World War II, Trubowitz shows how civil antisemitism was essential both to the dissemination of proto-fascist political and literary discourses, and to structural and stylistic practices within literary modernism. The book includes chapters on Djuna Barnes, Wyndham Lewis, and Virginia Woolf, early twentieth-century immigration legislation, fascist conspiracy novels, and contemporary far-right groups such as the English Defence League. "[Civil Antisemitism, Modernism, and British Culture, 1902-1939] contains some crucial insights into our study of antisemitism and modernism. Civil Antisemitism moves us away from the discussion of Jewish stereotype to a method that reveals a hidden and complicated rhetoric regarding Jews, and it opens up a new realm of investigation for those interested in Woolf and Jews. It is a worthy book because its methodology serves as a model for further investigations into the impact of Jews and Jewishness on Woolf and her modernist contemporaries." - Woolf Studies Annual "Trubowitz makes an excellent contribution to ongoing excavations of modernism, particularly in its address to the role of Jews and Jewishness as reflected more in style than character. It brings new, much needed light to writers like Djuna Barnes and Wyndham Lewis in these terms." - Marilyn Reizbaum, Harrison King McCann Professor of English, Bowdoin College "This is an important contribution to our understanding of civil antisemitism in modern Britain. The link between rhetoric, politics, and literary culture is made with great skill and moves well beyond the received ways of thinking about the subject. Anyone interested in modernism and the Jews should buy this book." - Bryan Cheyette, University of Reading Lara Trubowitz is the co-editor of  Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Representing Jews, Jewishness, and Modern Culture  and co-editor and co-translator of  Contemporary Italian Women Poets: A Bilingual  Anthology .  Her work on British and American modernism and Jewish Studies has appeared in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies and Twentieth-Century Literature. Used Book in Good Condition