Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain
as debates about the place of the Jews in the modern nation raged.
While previous scholarship has explored the prevalence of
antisemitic stereotypes in this period, Nadia Valman argues that
the figure of the Jewess - virtuous, appealing and sacrificial -
reveals how hostility towards Jews was accompanied by pity,
identification and desire. Reading a range of texts from popular
romance to the realist novel, she investigates how the complex
figure of the Jewess brought the instabilities of
nineteenth-century religious, racial and national identity into
uniquely sharp focus. Tracing the narrative of the Jewess from its
beginnings in Romantic and Evangelical literature, and reading
canonical writers including Walter Scott, George Eliot and Anthony
Trollope alongside more minor figures such as Charlotte Elizabeth
Tonna, Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy, Valman demonstrates the
remarkable persistence of this narrative and its myriad
transformations across the century.
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