Stories about Jewesses proliferated in nineteenth-century Britain
as debates about the place of the Jews in the 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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