Spector, Sheila A.
British Romanticism and the Jews
1. Introduction
Sheila A. Spector
Part I. Cultural Contexts
2. Great Britain or Judea Nova? National Identity, Property, and the Jewish Naturalization Controversy of 1753
Alan H. Singer
3. Abraham Goldsmid: Money Magician in the Popular Press
Mark L. Schoenfield
4. Halakhic Romanticism: Wordsworth, the Rabbis, and Torah
Lloyd Davies
5. “What are Those Golden Builders Doing?”: Mendelssohn, Blake, and the (Un)Building of
Leslie Tannenbaum
Part II. British Romantics and the
6. “For Luz is a Good Joke”: Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Jewish Eschatology
Christopher Moylan
7. Scott’s Hebraic Historicism
Esther Schor
8. Maria Edgeworth’s
Neville Hoad
9. Imagining “the Jew”: Dickens’ Romantic Heritage
Efraim Sicher
Part III. Jewish Writers and British Romanticism
10. British-Jewish Writing of the Romantic Era and the Problem of Modernity: The Example of David Levi
Michael Scrivener
11. Not for “Antiquaries,” but for “Philosophers”: Isaac D’Israeli’s Talmudic Critique and His Talmudical Way with Literature
Stuart Peterfreund
12. Hyman Hurwitz’s
Judith W. Page
13. Grace Aguilar: Rewriting Scott Rewriting History
Elizabeth Fay
14.
Sheila A. Spector
15. Harold’s Complaint, or Assimilation in Full Bloom
David Kaufmann
Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, History of Britain and Ireland, Jewish Cultural Studies, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
- Editor
- Spector, Sheila A.
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 306 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137055743
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-60251-9