The Jewess in Nineteenth-Century British Literary Culture

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The representation of the Jewess brought the instabilities of nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into uniquely sharp focus. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the Jewess question; 2. Repellent beauty: the liberal nation and the Jewess; 3. Jewish persuasions: gender and the culture of conversion; 4. Women of Israel: femininity, politics and Anglo-Jewish fiction; 5. Hellenist heroines: commerce, art and the Jewess; 6. The shadow of the harem: fin de siècle racial romance; 7. Conclusion: neither wild thing nor tame; Bibliography; Index.