Figures of conversion : "the Jewish Question" & English national identity /
Between the 1870s-90s, considerable attention was paid to Jews and Judaism by English critics and writers. Argues that the consideration of Jews by English writers was often in the context of their efforts to describe and improve the English character. Observes that alongside English antisemitism th...
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The culture of conversions: "The English madness" or "This mania of conversion"
- History, memoir, novel: "My own darling Jew, Jesus Christ loves you"
- 2. Writing English comedy: "patronizing Shylock": The primal scene and the return of the repressed in Harrington
- Figurative conversion, from the church fathers to Freud
- 3. Writing English history: nationalism and national guilt: Apostasy, conversion, and genocide in Ivanhoe
- The emergence of Anglo-Jewish history
- 4. Writing Spanish history: the Inquisition and "the secret race": Daughter and father(land)
- Conquest and conversion: Moors, Indians, Jews
- 5. Israel in England: English culture and "the Hebrew Premier": Disraeli and Crypto-Judaism
- Arnold's Hebraism and the "science of origins"
- 6. Moses in Egypt: the secret Jew in England: " Despoiling the Egyptians": Trollope's Jewish criminals
- "An accomplished Egyptian": Eliot's English gentleman.