Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity

by Michael Ragussis

Book Overview

"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 Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719)

When the hero of Defoe's novel listens skeptically to this anecdote related by a French Roman Catholic priest, he little suspects that in less than a century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082231570X
• ISBN13: 9780822315704
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"