Jews and British Romanticism

SHEILA A. SPECTOR, recipient of the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant, awarded by the Keats-Shelley Association of America, is an independent scholar who has devoted her professional career to studying the intersection between the Jewish and British cultures, primarily in the Romantic period.

'Spector's 'Introduction' provides a clearly written thirteen-page foundation for the essays which follow. Her twenty-six footnotes are at times detailed and most informative, ranging widely over the bibliography of recent scholarship on Romanticism and work in British Jewish and Europan Jewish historiography...Spector's volume is a deeply engaging one which should form the foundation for further exploration into a fascinating subject. The proof reading has been diligent, the high standard of the contributions remains uniform throughout. In short, Britsih Romanticism and the Jews is a most important collection of essays.' - William Baker, Northern Illinois University, Romanticism

• Introduction: The Politics of Religion; S.A.Spector PART I: BRITISH CULTURE AND THE JEWS Mr. Punch at the Great Exhibition: Stereotypes of Yankee and Hebrew in 1851; F.Felsenstein Passing for a Jew, On Stage and Off: Stage Jews and Cross-Dressing Gentiles in Georgian England; M.Ragussis William Blake and the Jewish Swedenborgians; M.K.Schuchard Blake and the Books of Numbers: Joshua the Giant Killer and the Tears of Balaam; R.P.Yoder PART II: JEWISH WRITERS AND BRITISH CULTURE Following the Muse: Inspiration, Prophecy, and Deference in the Poetry of Emma Lyon (1788-1870), Anglo-Jewish Poet; M.Scrivener Identity, Diaspora, and the Secular Voice in the Works of Isaac D'Israeli; S.Peterfreund Anglo-Jewish Identity and the Politics of Cultivation in Hazlitt, Aguilar, and Disraeli; J.W.Page Charlotte Dacre's Zofloya: The Gothic Demonization of the Jew; D.Long Hoeveler PART III: THE JEWS AND BRITISH ROMANTICISM OUTSIDE OF ENGLAND Commerce, Christianity, and Concern: Britain and Middle Eastern Jewry in the Mid-Nineteenth Century; R.Spector Simon Jewish Translations of British Romantic Literature: A Preliminary Bibliography; S.A.Spector The Reader as Witness: "City of the Killings" and Bialik's Romantic Historiography; L.Lachman PART IV: CODA: COLERIDGE AND JUDAICA Coleridge's Misreading of Spinoza; S.J.Spector Mendelssohn and Coleridge on Words, Thoughts, and Things; F.Burwick Standing at Mont Blanc: Coleridge and Midrash; L.G.Davies