British Romanticism and the Jes History, Culture, Literature [Paperback]

British Romanticism and the Jews explores the mutual influences exerted by the British-Christian and British-Jewish communities on each other during the period between the Enlightenment and Victorianism. The essays in the volume demonstrate how the texts produced by the Jewish Enlightenment provided a significant resource for romantic intellectual revisionism, in much the same way that British romanticism provided the cultural basis through which the British-Jewish community was able to negotiate between the competing obligations to ethnicity and nationalism.Introduction; S.A.Spector Cultural Contexts Great Britain or Judea Nova? National Identity, Property, and the Jewish Naturalization Controversy of 1753; A.H.Singer Abraham Goldsmid: Money Magician in the Popular Press; M.L.Schoenfield Halakhic Romanticism: Wordsworth, the Rabbis, & T.L.Davies What Are Those Golden Builders Doing?: Mendelssohn, Blake and the (Un)Building of Jerusalem; L.Tannenbaum British Romantics and the Haskalah For Luz is a Good Joke : Thomas Lovell Beddoes and Jewish Eschatology; C.Moylan Scott's Hebraic Historicism; E.Schor Maria Edgeworth's Harrington: The Price of Sympathetic Representation; N.Hoad Imagining 'the jew': Dickens' Romantic Heritage; E.Sicher Jewish Writers and British Romanticism British-Jewish Writing of the Romantic Era and the Problem of Modernity: The Example of David Levi; M.Scrivener Not for 'Antiquaries', but for Philosophers: Isaac D'Israeli's Talmudic Critique and His Talmudical Way with Literature; S.Peterfreund Hyman Hurwitz's Hebrew Tales (1826): Redeeming the Talmudic Garden - J.W.Page Grace Aguilar: Rewriting Scott Rewriting History - E.Fay Alroy as Disraeli's Ideal Ambition; S.A.Spector Harold's Complaint, or Assimilation in Full Bloom; D.Kaufmann

Without exception, the contributors negotiate almost seamlessly between the fields of literature, history, cultural, and Jewish studies. - Frank Felsenstein, Ball State University, USA