| Description |
1 online resource (x, 595 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Preface: Fictions of Identity -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Representative Affair -- 2 The Byronic Legacy -- 3 Virtues and Vanities -- 4 Henrietta: A Love Story -- 5 What Is He? The Crisis Examined -- 6 Prejudice -- 7 Vindication -- 8 Young England/Coningsby -- 9 Sir Robert Peel and the Apotheosis of Young England -- 10 Sybil : Two Nations, or One? An Allegorical Romance -- 11 Rhetoric, Principles, and Expediency: The Corn Law Debate of 1846 and the Politics of Protection -- 12 Tancred and the Politics of Identity: Principles, Expediency, and Trust -- 13 Leadership -- 14 On Top of the Greasy Pole: The Disestablishment Crisis of 1868 -- 15 Lothair : The Politics of Love, Faith, and Duty -- 16 "The Family Romance": Politics, Power, and Love in Endymion -- 17 The "Faery" Queen, the "Arch Villain," and the "Mephistopheles of Statesmanship" -- 18 The Conquering Hero/Falconet |
| Summary |
Disraeli: The Romance of Politics examines the relation between Disraeli's novels and his political career and illuminates both in a way not previously attempted |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 561-572) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881.
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Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 -- Political activity
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| SUBJECT |
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881 fast |
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Authors, English -- Biography.
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Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Authors, English
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Political participation
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Politics and literature
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Prime ministers
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1442661038 |
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9781442661035 |
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