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Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity

Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity

Ragussis, Michael

Paperback

Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions

Literary CriticismAnthropology

ISBN10: 082231570X
ISBN13: 9780822315704
Publisher: Duke Univ Pr
Published: Apr 12 1995
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew.
-Daniel Defoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

When the hero of Defoe's novel listens skeptically to this anecdote related by a French Roman Catholic priest, he little suspects that in less than a century the conversion of the Jews would become nothing short of a national project-not in France but in England. In this book, Michael Ragussis explores the phenomenon of Jewish conversion-the subject of popular enthusiasm, public scandal, national debate, and dubbed the English madness by its critics-in Protestant England from the 1790s through the 1870s.

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