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Figures of Conversion: “The Jewish Question” and English National Identity
Duke University Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-8223-1570-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8223-1559-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8223-7812-9 Library of Congress Classification PR868.J4R34 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 305.892404109034
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"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. See other books on: Conversion | English fiction | Figures | Group identity in literature | Jews in literature See other titles from Duke University Press |
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