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Figures of conversion : "the Jewish Question" and English national identity
- Title
- Figures of conversion : "the Jewish Question" and English national identity / by Michael Ragussis.
- Author
- Ragussis, Michael
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PR868.J4 R34 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 340 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Post-contemporary interventions
- Uniform Title
- Post-contemporary interventions.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. The Culture of Conversion. "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.
- ISBN
- 0822315599 (cloth)
- 082231570X (paper)
- LCCN
- 94038191
- OCLC
- 187443129
- ocn187443129
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries