ABSTRACT
Increased Jewish visibility throughout the eighteenth century inspired literary depictions. Some repeated traditional stereotypes, such as traffic with Satan, but others emphasized different issues in the context of scientific racialism, a financial system that mainstreamed practices formerly deemed sinful, and theories of emotional disposition as an indicator of moral worth. An anti-antisemitic discourse emerged as well. At a time when Great Britain united around Protestantism, philosophers challenged religious conventions, moralists promoted sentimentalism, and scientists, in the context of settler colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade, constructed racial categories, Jews uniquely belonged to both an exotic religion and an exotic race.
