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Figures of Conversion

Michael Ragussis

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Description:In this book, Michael Ragussis explores the phenomenon of Jewish conversionthe subject of popular enthusiasm, public scandal, national debate, and dubbed the English madness by its criticsin Protestant England from the 1790s through the 1870s. Moving beyond the familiar catalog of anti-Semitic stereotypes, Ragussis analyzes the rhetoric of conversion as it was reinvented by the English in sermons, stories for the young, histories of the Jews, memoirs by Jewish converts, and popular novels. Alongside these texts and the countertexts produced by English Jews, he situates such writers as Edgeworth, Scott, Disraeli, Arnold, Trollope, and Eliot within the debate over conversion and related issues of race, gender, and nation-formation. His work reveals how a powerful group of emergent cultural projectsincluding a revisionist tradition of the novel, the new science of ethnology, and the rewriting of European historyredefined English national identity in response to the ideology of conversion, the history of the Jews, and the Jewish question.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Figures of Conversion. To get started finding Figures of Conversion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 352

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Duke University Press

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1322141118

Description: In this book, Michael Ragussis explores the phenomenon of Jewish conversionthe subject of popular enthusiasm, public scandal, national debate, and dubbed the English madness by its criticsin Protestant England from the 1790s through the 1870s. Moving beyond the familiar catalog of anti-Semitic stereotypes, Ragussis analyzes the rhetoric of conversion as it was reinvented by the English in sermons, stories for the young, histories of the Jews, memoirs by Jewish converts, and popular novels. Alongside these texts and the countertexts produced by English Jews, he situates such writers as Edgeworth, Scott, Disraeli, Arnold, Trollope, and Eliot within the debate over conversion and related issues of race, gender, and nation-formation. His work reveals how a powerful group of emergent cultural projectsincluding a revisionist tradition of the novel, the new science of ethnology, and the rewriting of European historyredefined English national identity in response to the ideology of conversion, the history of the Jews, and the Jewish question.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Figures of Conversion. To get started finding Figures of Conversion, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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