Robert P O'Kell

Disraeli

The Romance of Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 152mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1012g
• ISBN-13: 9781442627062
• ISBN-10: 1442627069
• Artikelnr.: 40905610

Autorenporträt

Robert O’Kell is Professor of English, and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Arts, at the University of Manitoba.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Preface
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. “The Arts of a Designing Person”: Disraeli, Peel, and Young England /
Coningsby; or the New Generation
9. Sir Robert Peel and the Apotheosis of Young England
10. Sybil; Two Nations, or One?: Disraeli’s Allegorical Romance
11. The Corn Law Debate of 1846 and the Politics of Protection
12. Tancred: 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 Disraeli’s Endymion
17. The Faery Queen, the “Arch Villain,” and “the Mephistopheles of
Statesmanship”
18. The Conquering Hero / Falconet
Bibliography
Index