| British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature 2002 Edition Contributor(s): Spector, S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0230602517 ISBN-13: 9780230602519 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2008 Annotation: "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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 820.914 |
| LCCN: 2009291264 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.85 lbs) 308 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |