Disraeli, Benjamin

This study analyzes how literary representations of the Jew participate in the construction of Anglo-Jewish identity during the nineteenth century. While previous studies have focused on Gentile writers and the cultural assumptions informing their works, I consider the responses…

In the late-nineteenth century, a belief emerged in Great Britain which posited that the "Anglo-Saxon race" had descended biologically from the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. According to this creed, Britain's predominating position among nations was due to its identity as God's Cho…

Bringing the Tiger into the Parlor: The Consumption of Exotic Objects in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel considers the ways foreign objects are exotified through consumption and display in the domestic settings of novels by Susan Ferrier, Benjamin Disraeli, William Makepeac…