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Article: Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture.(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2004
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Judith W. Page, Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture.
(Palgrave 2004) xiv + 257 $59.95.
What was a Romantic Jew to do? As Judith W. Page makes clear in her valuable book, Imperfect Sympathies: Jews and Judaism in British Romantic Literature and Culture, whether rich or poor, male or female, Jews in the Romantic era were doomed to be victims of anti-Semitism. In literary portrayals Jewish men were associated with ugly, avaricious, and lustful; Jewish women, though seemingly better regarded, were in fact often treated merely as "objects of desire and conversion" (10). Even those gentile writers who attempted to ...