The Jews and British romanticism : politics, religion, culture

Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), 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. 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 Annotation Expanding the perspective initiated byBritish 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 andincorporated 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 Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors -- Introduction: The Politics of Religion -- Part I British Culture and the Jews -- 1 Mr. Punch at the Great Exhibition: Stereotypes of Yankee and Hebrew in 1851 -- 2 Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England -- 3 William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians -- 4 Blake and the Book of Numbers: Joshua the Giant Killer and the Tears of Balaam -- Part II Jewish Writers and British Culture