Byron and the Jews

by Sheila A. Spector

A full-length critical inquiry into the complex interrelationship between the British poet and the Jews.

Despite their religious and geographic differences, the British poet Lord Byron shared certain attitudes about politics, institutionalized religion, and individual identity that made him very popular with Jewish readers. In Byron and the Jews, author Sheila A. Spector investigates why, of all the British Romantic poets, Byron...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814334423
• ISBN13: 9780814334423
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"