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"Singing in Foreign Land has many strengths and will appeal to many kinds of readers, including those with interests in Coleridge and other Romantic poets’ intertextual connections with Jewish writers; those seeking a more diverse view of British Romanticism; those seeking deep and intricate analyses of the major Anglo-Jewish writers of the period; and those with particular interests in Jewish-Christian literary relations...[An] intricate, complex, and wonderfully researched volume."
"Singing in Foreign Land has many strengths and will appeal to many kinds of readers, including those with interests in Coleridge and other Romantic poets’ intertextual connections with Jewish writers; those seeking a more diverse view of British Romanticism; those seeking deep and intricate analyses of the major Anglo-Jewish writers of the period; and those with particular interests in Jewish-Christian literary relations...[An] intricate, complex, and wonderfully researched volume."
"Ground-breaking and beautifully written, Singing in a Foreign Land is an extraordinary contribution to our knowledge of religious diversity during the Romantic era. Karen A. Weisman is better equipped than any critic today to give us a fine-tuned picture of Romantic Jewish cultural production, one that refuses to see it as either merely oppositional or conformist."
"I know of no other book that covers this ground of Anglo-Jewish Romantic poetry. With her meticulous scholarship and skillful readings, Karen A. Weisman shows how Anglo-Jewish Romantic poets engaged with the inherited traditions of pastoral, elegy, and lyric in a way that has earned them a place in that very tradition."
Karen A. Weisman teaches in the English Department of the University of Toronto. She is author of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.