English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: Nested Nation

2. England in Blood: Jewish Discourse in Edgeworth’s Harrington and Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge

3. Right of Return: “Zionist” Crusades in Tonna’s Judah’s Lion and Disraeli’s Tancred

4. Becoming English: (Re)Covering “Jewish” Origins in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre

5. “This Inherited Blot”: Jewish Identity in Middlemarch’s English Part

6. King Solomon’s Mines? African Jewry, British Imperialism, and H. Rider Haggard’s Diamonds

Conclusion: The Connecting Thread

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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