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Figures of conversion, I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a <i>Jew</i>.
—Daniel Defoe, <i>The Farther Ad, Figures of conversion has a rating of 4.5 stars
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Figures of conversion, I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew. —Daniel Defoe, The Farther Ad, Figures of conversion
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  • Figures of conversion
  • Written by author Michael Ragussis
  • Published by Durham : Duke University Press, 1995., 1995
  • "I knew a Man, who having nothing but a summary Notion of Religion himself, and being wicked and profligate to the last Degree in his Life, made a thorough Reformation in himself, by labouring to convert a Jew." —Daniel Defoe, The Farther Ad
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Introduction 1
1 The Culture of Conversion 15
"The English Madness" or "This Mania of Conversion" 17
History, Memoir, Novel: "My own darling Jew, Jesus Christ loves you" 26
2 Writing English Comedy: "Patronizing Shylock" 57
The Primal Scene and the Return of the Repressed in Harrington 65
Figurative Conversion, from the Church Fathers to Freud 76
3 Writing English History: Nationalism and "National Guilt" 89
Apostasy, Conversion, and Genocide in Ivanhoe 94
The Emergence of Anglo-Jewish History 104
4 Writing Spanish History: The Inquisition and "the Secret Race" 127
Daughter and Father(land) 136
Conquest and Conversion: Moors, Indians, Jews 159
5 Israel in England: English Culture and the "Hebrew Premier" 174
Disraeli and Crypto-Judaism 176
Arnold's Hebraism and the "Science of Origins" 211
6 Moses in Egypt: The Secret Jew in England 234
"Despoiling the Egyptians": Trollope's Jewish Criminals 238
"An accomplished Egyptian": Eliot's English Gentleman 260
Epilogue 291
Notes 301
Index 333


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