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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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Description
vi, 340 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Post-contemporary interventions
Uniform Title
Post-contemporary interventions.
Subject
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Jews > Conversion to Christianity > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • National characteristics, English, in literature
  • Christianity and other religions in literature
  • Group identity in literature
  • Jews in literature
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