CFP: 19th-C. Jewishness and Irishness (9/22/04; 4/21/05-4/24/05)

2005 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies
Conference (Louisiana State University, April 21-24,
2005)

Proposed Panel: Irish/Jewish Convergence and
Conversion in Nineteenth Century Narrative
 
Matthew Arnold once argued that in the 1830s, "a
steady, middle-class Anglo-Saxon much more imagined
himself Ehud's cousin than Ossian's," implicitly
juxtaposing the histories of the fantasized figures
of the Jew and the Celt in the British imagination.
 The papers of this panel will explore the
inter-relationships between Jewish and Irish
identity and representation in nineteenth-century
narrative and culture. How do Protestant, Jewish,
and Catholic writers figure Irishness in terms of
Jewish history, practice, or stereotype, and
vice-versa? How does the racialization of religion
in one case provide a model for racialization in the
other? How does the trope of conversion (voluntary
or forced) function for these two identities?
Papers considering any aspect of the relationships
between Jewishness and Irishness in canonical or
non-canonical texts of the nineteenth century are
welcome. Please send a 200-400 word abstract and
brief bio by September 22 to:

Patrick O'Malley (pro_at_georgetown.edu)

or

Susan David Bernstein (sdbernst_at_wisc.edu)

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