The Jews and British Romanticism: Politics, Religion, Culture

Product Description Expanding the perspective initiated by British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature (0-312-29522-7), this volume explores more deeply the complexities inherent in the relationship between the British and Jewish cultures as initiated in the Romantic Period in England, though extending to the present in the Middle East. Review 'Spector's 'Introduction' provides a clearly written thirteen-page foundation for the essays which follow. Her twenty-six footnotes are at times detailed and most informative, ranging widely over the bibliography of recent scholarship on Romanticism and work in British Jewish and Europan Jewish historiography...Spector's volume is a deeply engaging one which should form the foundation for further exploration into a fascinating subject. The proof reading has been diligent, the high standard of the contributions remains uniform throughout. In short, Britsih Romanticism and the Jews is a most important collection of essays.' - William Baker, Northern Illinois University, Romanticism About the Author Sheila A. Spector, recipient of the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant, awarded by the Keats-Shelley Association of America, is an independent scholar who has devoted her professional career to studying the intersection between the Jewish and British cultures, primarily in the romantic period.