Disraeli and the Politics of Fiction: Some Reconsiderations: Some Reconsiderations

A comprehensive reassessment of Disraeli’s political and authorial careers written by leading scholars from Great Britain, Canada, the United States and Australia, exploring how Disraeli’s fictions represent and intervene in debates about selfhood, political theory, religion and cultural histories. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Disraeli’s “Autobiography”: Letters, Novels, Memoranda, Journalism, Biography, and Speeches Chapter 2 Benjamin Disraeli’s Venetia (1837): Teaching the Mob a Lesson 1 Venetia 1.1 Britain in the 1830s 2 A Vindication of the English Constitution ... 2.1 The Mob 2.2 Disraeli and Carlyle 3 Conclusion Chapter 3 The Emergence of Disraeli’s Jewishness Chapter 4 Reconsidering Catholicism in The Young Duke and Sybil: Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, Benjamin Disraeli and the British Donna Angelica Chapter 5 Historical Romance and the Mythology of Charles i in D’Israeli and Disraeli Chapter 6 Disraeli and Race 1 ‘A Racial Thinker’?: The Historiography of Disraeli and Race 2 Spiritual Genes: The Race Idea in Disraeli’s Nineteenth-century Britain 3 ‘Favoured by Nature and by Nature’s God’: Disraeli’s Racial and Religious Claims51 Chapter 7 Politicizing Character and Landscape in the Young Duke and Henrietta Temple Conclusion Select Bibliography Index How do Disraeli's fictions represent, uncover and express the interplay of his roles as political theorist and practitioner, social commentator and author ? Travelling well beyond his political trilogy of Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845), and Tancred (1847), this volume examines his letters, political writings, biographies and silver fork novels, including Alroy (1833), Contarini Fleming (1832), Henrietta Temple (1837), Venetia (1837), Vivian Grey (1826) , and The Young Duke (1831). It assesses Disraeli's representation and analysis of political conservatism, and traces the fascinating interaction between political theory and literary representation. Bringing together studies of Disraeli and his canon by contemporary and multidisciplinary scholars of the nineteenth century and of Disraeli himself, this book provides a uniquely multifaceted collection of fresh literary, historical and political scholarship "How do Disraeli's fictions represent, uncover and express the interplay of his roles as political theorist and practitioner, social commentator and author? Travelling well beyond his political trilogy of Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845), and Tancred (1847), this volume examines his letters, political writings, biographies and silver fork novels, including Alroy, Contarini Fleming, Henrietta Temple, Venetia, Vivian Grey, and The Young Duke. It assesses Disraeli's representation and analysis of political conservatism, and traces the fascinating interaction between political theory and literary representation. Bringing together studies of Disraeli and his canon by contemporary and multidisciplinary scholars of the nineteenth century and of Disraeli himself, this book provides a uniquely multifaceted collection of fresh literary, historical and political scholarship"-- Provided by publisher