Disraeli and the Politics of Fiction: Some Reconsiderations

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.

Acknowledgments


 Introduction

  A.D. Cousins and Dani Napton



1 Disraeli’s “Autobiography” Letters, Novels, Memoranda, Journalism, Biography, and Speeches

  Robert O’Kell



2 Benjamin Disraeli’s Venetia (1837) Teaching the Mob a Lesson

  Michael Flavin



3 The Emergence of Disraeli’s Jewishness

  Todd Endelman



4 Reconsidering Catholicism in the Young Duke and Sybil Edmund Spenser, Alexander Pope, Benjamin Disraeli and the British Donna Angelica

  A.D. Cousins



5 Historical Romance and the Mythology of Charles i in D’Israeli and Disraeli

  A.D. Cousins and Dani Napton



6 Disraeli and Race

  Megan Dent



7 Politicizing Character and Landscape in the Young Duke and Henrietta Temple

  Dani Napton



 Conclusion

  A.D. Cousins and Dani Napton



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