Heidi Kaufman is Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1.Introduction: Nested Nation2.England in Blood: Jewish Discourse in Edgeworth’s Harrington and Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge3.Right of Return: “Zionist” Crusades in Tonna’s Judah’s Lion and Disraeli’s Tancred4.Becoming English: (Re)Covering “Jewish” Origins in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre5.“This Inherited Blot”: Jewish Identity in Middlemarch’s English Part6.King Solomon’s Mines? African Jewry, British Imperialism, and H. Rider Haggard’s DiamondsConclusion: The Connecting ThreadNotesBibliographyIndex

“Offers an interesting critical lens through which to view nineteenth-century fiction: Jewish discourse.”—Judith Page, University of Florida

Heidi Kaufman is Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1.Introduction: Nested Nation2.England in Blood: Jewish Discourse in Edgeworth’s Harrington and Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge3.Right of Return: “Zionist” Crusades in Tonna’s Judah’s Lion and Disraeli’s Tancred4.Becoming English: (Re)Covering “Jewish” Origins in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre5.“This Inherited Blot”: Jewish Identity in Middlemarch’s English Part6.King Solomon’s Mines? African Jewry, British Imperialism, and H. Rider Haggard’s DiamondsConclusion: The Connecting ThreadNotesBibliographyIndex

“Offers an interesting critical lens through which to view nineteenth-century fiction: Jewish discourse.”—Judith Page, University of Florida

Heidi Kaufman is Assistant Professor of English and Jewish Studies at the University of Delaware.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1.Introduction: Nested Nation2.England in Blood: Jewish Discourse in Edgeworth’s Harrington and Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge3.Right of Return: “Zionist” Crusades in Tonna’s Judah’s Lion and Disraeli’s Tancred4.Becoming English: (Re)Covering “Jewish” Origins in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre5.“This Inherited Blot”: Jewish Identity in Middlemarch’s English Part6.King Solomon’s Mines? African Jewry, British Imperialism, and H. Rider Haggard’s DiamondsConclusion: The Connecting ThreadNotesBibliographyIndex

“Offers an interesting critical lens through which to view nineteenth-century fiction: Jewish discourse.”—Judith Page, University of Florida