Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9780271035260 Academic Inspection Copy

English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Reflections on a Nested Nation
  • ISBN-13: 9780271035260
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Heidi Kaufman
  • Price: AUD $204.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/11/2009
  • Format: Hardback 256 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
Description
Table of
Contents
Reviews
Google
Preview

Examines the embedding of Jewish history and culture in depictions of English racial and national identity in nineteenth-century novels.


Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Nested Nation

2. England in Blood: Jewish Discourse in Edgeworth’s Harrington and Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge

3. Right of Return: “Zionist” Crusades in Tonna’s Judah’s Lion and Disraeli’s Tancred

4. Becoming English: (Re)Covering “Jewish” Origins in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

5. “This Inherited Blot”: Jewish Identity in Middlemarch’s English Part

6. King Solomon’s Mines? African Jewry, British Imperialism, and H. Rider Haggard’s Diamonds

Conclusion: The Connecting Thread

Notes

Bibliography

Index



“If critics typically identify Fagin, Deronda, and Svengali as cultural others in the normalizing worlds of fiction, Heidi Kaufman’s recent book looks beyond the most obvious literal depictions and offers a new perspective that challenges insider/outsider binaries.”

—Emily Steinlight, Modern Philology

Google Preview content