Figures of Conversion : "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1995.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.