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.