British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature

Spector, S.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2008-08-21

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780230602519

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-05574-3

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 294