Jeffrey S Shoulson

Fictions of Conversion

Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England

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Produktbeschreibung

Fictions of Conversion investigates the anxieties produced by the rapid and erratic religious, political, and cultural transformations in early modern England, which were often given shape in poetry, plays, and translations by the figure of the Jewish converso.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244823
• ISBN-10: 0812244826
• Artikelnr.: 36937108

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey S. Shoulson is Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, Professor of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. He is also author of Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1. "The Jews Perverted and the Gentiles Converted": Confessions and
Conversos
Chapter 2. "Thy People Shall Be My People": Typology, Gender, and Biblical
Converts
Chapter 3. "The Meaning Not the Name I Call": Converting the Bible and
Homer
Chapter 4. Alchemies of Conversion: Shakespeare, Jonson, Vaughan, and the
Science of Jewish Transmutation
Chapter 5. Conversion and Enthusiasm: Radical Religion and the Poetics of
Paradise Regained
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments