The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: The Politics of Religion....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Mr. Punch at the Great Exhibition: Stereotypes of Yankee and Hebrew in 1851....Pages 17-39
Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England....Pages 41-60
William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians....Pages 61-86
Blake and the Book of Numbers: Joshua the Giant Killer and the Tears of Balaam....Pages 87-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Following the Muse: Inspiration, Prophecy, and Deference in the Poetry of Emma Lyon (1788–1870), Anglo-Jewish Poet....Pages 105-126
Identity, Diaspora, and the Secular Voice in the Works of Isaac D’Israeli....Pages 127-147
Anglo-Jewish Identity and the Politics Of Cultivation in Hazlitt, Aguilar, and Disraeli....Pages 149-164
Charlotte Dacre’s Zofloya: The Gothic Demonization of the Jew....Pages 165-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Commerce, Concern, and Christianity: Britain and Middle-Eastern Jewry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century....Pages 181-194
Jewish Translations of British Romantic Literature (1753–1858): A Preliminary Bibliography....Pages 195-210
The Reader as Witness: “City of the Killings” and Bialik’s Romantic Historiography....Pages 211-230
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Coleridge’s Misreading of Spinoza....Pages 233-244
Mendelssohn and Coleridge on Words, Thoughts, and Things....Pages 245-273
Standing at Mont Blanc: Coleridge and Midrash ....Pages 275-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-334