Mary S Millar

Disraeli's Disciple

The Scandalous Life of George Smythe

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Produktbeschreibung

In addition to the portrait it paints of a fascinating man whose public life was as earnest and idealistic as his private life was shocking and titillating, Disraeli’s Disciple also provides new insights into the politics of this formative stage in British history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 789g
• ISBN-13: 9780802090928
• ISBN-10: 0802090923
• Artikelnr.: 22048837

Autorenporträt

By Mary S. Millar

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chronology 1818–75
Abbreviations
Prologue: The Wild Ass’s Skin
1. A Splendid Failure?
2. 1400–1817: The Strangford Inheritance
3. 1818–26: Cradled in Commotions
4. 1826–35: George Smythe’s Schooldays
5. 1836–7: Herstmonceux and Cambridge
6. 1837–8: Faber
7. 1838–9: Pearls and Swine
8. 1840: Lady Tankerville
9. 1841: Heaven-Born Statesman or Devil-Born Orator
10. 1841: I Am a Very Zero
11. 1842: Young England
12. 1843: Worrying Peel – and Reading Casanova
13. 1844: Coningsby and Historic Fancies
14. 1844: The Pursuit of Psyche
15. 1845: The Double Game
16. 1846: Falling Upstairs – and Down
17. 1847: With a Tongue and a Pen of His Own
18. 1848–9: Very Like Assassination
19. 1850–2: Diplomatic Moves
20. 1852: Something about the Duke
21. 1853–5: The Stage-Box of My Soul
22. 1856–7: Bed-Ridden Lovelace
Afterwards
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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