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English origins, Jewish discourse, and the nineteenth-century British novel : reflections on a nested nation
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English origins, Jewish discourse, and the nineteenth-century British novel : reflections on a nested nation

Author: Heidi Kaufman
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Examines the embedding of Jewish history and culture in depictions of English racial and national identity in nineteenth-century novels"--Provided by publisher.
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Heidi Kaufman
ISBN: 9780271035260 0271035269
OCLC Number: 310171774
Description: xii, 243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: nested nation --
England in blood: Jewish discourse in Edgeworth's Harrington and Dickens's Barnaby Rudge --
Right of return: zionist crusades in Tonna's Judah's Lion and Disraeli's Tancred --
Becoming English: recovering Jewish origins in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre --
This inherited blot: Jewish identity in Middlemarch's English part --
King Solomon's mines? African Jewry, British imperialism, and H. Rider Haggard's diamonds --
Conclusion: the connecting thread.
Responsibility: Heidi Kaufman.

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"Examines the embedding of Jewish history and culture in depictions of English racial and national identity in nineteenth-century novels"--Provided by publisher.

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