Title: Fictions of conversion : Jews, Christians, and cultures of change in early modern England /
Authors: Shoulson, Jeffrey S.
Publisher: Philadelphia,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Jews England.; English literature History and criticism; Christianity and other religions Judaism History; Religion and literature England History; Jews in literature History and criticism.; Conversion in literature History; Culture conflict in literature England History; Hebrew literature Appreciation England.; Jews Conversion to Christianity.; Culture conflict in literature History
Contents: Introduction -- "The Jews perverted and the Gentiles converted": confessions and conversos -- "Thy people shall be my people": typology, gender, and biblical converts -- "The meaning, not the name I call": converting the Bible and Homer -- Alchemies of conversion: Shakespeare, Jonson, Vaughan, and the science of Jewish transmutation -- Conversion and enthusiasm: radical religion and the poetics of Paradise regained.