More Shopping OptionsExpanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature, this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East. A collection of fourteen essays, the book is divided into four parts. The first--British Culture and the Jews--explores the intersection between the British and the Jews from the British perspective, containing four essays that analyze different ways the British adapted and incorporated Judaica into the broader body politic. The second section--Jewish Writers and British Culture--explores the opposite phenomena, its four essays considering the ways in which Jewish writers reconciled the divergent pulls between their Jewish heritage and British nationalism. The third section--The Jews and British Romanticism Outside of England--carries the discussion beyond the more localized phenomenon of Romanticism in England, its three essays considering British Middle Eastern foreign policy, Hebrew and Yiddish translations of British Romanticism, and manifestations of British Romanticism in modern Hebrew literature. The last three essays focus on various ways in which arguably the most significant of the British Romanticists responded to Judaica.
Sheila A. Spector, recipient of the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant, awarded by the Keats-Shelley Association of America, is an independent scholar who has devoted her professional career to studying the intersection between the Jewish and British cultures, primarily in the romantic period.
Introduction: The Politics of Religion--Sheila A. Spector * Part I: British Culture and the Jews * Mr. Punch at the Great Exhibition: Stereotypes of Yankee and Hebrew in 1851--Frank Felsenstein * Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England--Michael Ragussis * William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians--Marsha Keith Schuchard * Blake and the Books of Numbers: Joshua the Giant Killer and the Tears of Balaam--R. Paul Yoder * Part II: Jewish Writers and British Culture * Following the Muse: Inspiration, Prophecy, and Deference in the Poetry of Emma Lyon (1788-1870), Anglo-Jewish Poet--Michael Scrivener * Identity, Diaspora, and the Secular Voice in the Works of Isaac D'Israeli--Stuart Peterfreund * Anglo-Jewish Identity and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt, Aguilar, and Disraeli--Judith W. Page * Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: The Gothic Demonization of the Jew--Diane Long Hoeveler * Part III: The Jews and British Romanticism Outside of England * Commerce, Christianity, and Concern: Britain and Middle Eastern Jewry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century--Reeva Spector Simon * Jewish Translations of British Romantic Literature: A Preliminary Bibliography--Sheila A. Spector * The Reader as Witness: "City of the Killings" and Bialik's Romantic Historiography--Lilach Lachman * Coda: Coleridge and Judaica * Coleridge's Misreading of Spinoza--Stanley J. Spector * Mendelssohn and Coleridge on Words, Thoughts, and Things--Frederick Burwick * Standing at Mont Blanc: Coleridge and Midrash--Lloyd Guy Davies
