Disraeli and the Politics of Fiction: Some Reconsiderations

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50565-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 64, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cousins, A.D.

Napton, Dani

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Über Autor(innen)

A.D. Cousins, Emeritus Professor at Macquarie University, is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and a Member of the Order of Australia. The most recent of his twenty books are the co-authored, co-edited volume Alexander Pope in The Reign of Queen Anne and Mythologies of Internal Exile in Elizabethan Verse: Six Studies. He holds doctorates in both English Literature and Political Theory.


Dani Napton, Adjunct Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Australia, has published extensively on English literature and culture 1750-1900, specifically on: the history of ideas; historiography; landscape/place narrative; and representations of politico-theological conservatism and radicalism in the novel. She holds doctorates in English Literature and Political Theory.