Disraeli: A Brief LifeCambridge University Press, 12.09.1996 - 246 Seiten This concise study of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) focuses on the substantial reassessment of Disraeli's career and personality that is currently taking place. Particular reference is made to the role played in Disraeli's conception of life and politics by his Jewishness and his romanticism. The book also seeks to understand Disraeli in a European as well as a British frame of thought. These new elements are set alongside all the principal biographical features of Disraeli's life and career. This "brief life" can therefore be read both as a standard, up-to-date biography of one of the greatest statesmen of the later Victorian age and as a reinterpretation of key aspects of Disraeli's life and times. |
Inhalt
The theatre of life | 9 |
The theatre of politics 18321837 | 31 |
The theatre of parliament 18371846 | 54 |
A leading part 18461865 | 83 |
Top of the bill 18651881 | 136 |
Envoi the primrose sphinx | 211 |
Notes | 223 |
Index | 238 |
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