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.

• 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

'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