Disraeli : : The Romance of Politics / / Robert P. O'Kell.

• VerfasserIn: O'Kell, Robert P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 17 illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442661035
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442661035
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert P. O'Kell.

When we think of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81), one of two images inevitably first springs to mind: either Disraeli the two-time prime minister of Britain, or Disraeli the author of major novels such as Coningsby, Sybil, and Endymion. But were these two sides of his persona entirely separate? After all, the recurring fantasy structures in Disraeli's fictions bear a striking similarity to the imaginative ways in which he shaped his political career.Disraeli: The Romance of Politics provides a remarkable biographical portrait of Disraeli as both a statesman and a storyteller. Drawing extensively on Disraeli's published letters and speeches, as well as on archival sources in the United Kingdom, Robert O'Kell illuminates the intimate, symbiotic relationship between his fiction and his politics. His investigation shines new light on all of Disraeli's novels, his two governments, his imperialism, and his handling of the Irish Church Disestablishment Crisis of 1868 and the Eastern Question in the 1870s.