Michael Ragussis: 2 books
Theatrical Nation
Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Perhaps the most significant development of the Georgian theater was its multiplication of ethnic, colonial, and provincial character types parading across the stage. In Theatrical Nation, Michael Ragussis opens up an archive of neglected plays and performances to examine how this flood of domestic...
Figures of Conversion
“The Jewish Question” and English National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 1995
"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...