British romanticism and the Jews : history, culture, literature / edited by Sheila A. Spector.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spector, Sheila A., 1946-

Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Jewish authors--History and criticism.

English literature.

Judaism and literature--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Judaism and literature.

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Jews--Great Britain--Intellectual life--19th century.

Jews.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Intellectual life.

History.

English literature--Jewish authors.

Great Britain.

Judaism in literature.

Jews in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 294 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-285) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.

ISBN:

0312295227

OCLC:

49648378