Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Disraeli's education
- 2 Disraeli's romanticism: self-fashioning in the novels
- 3 Disraeli's crucial illness
- 4 Disraeli and orientalism
- 5 ‘A Hebrew to the end’: the emergence of Disraeli's Jewishness
- 6 Disraeli's interpretation of English history
- 7 Disraeli's politics
- Notes
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Disraeli's education
- 2 Disraeli's romanticism: self-fashioning in the novels
- 3 Disraeli's crucial illness
- 4 Disraeli and orientalism
- 5 ‘A Hebrew to the end’: the emergence of Disraeli's Jewishness
- 6 Disraeli's interpretation of English history
- 7 Disraeli's politics
- Notes
- Index
Summary
We express our gratitude to the Canadian Publishing Foundation and its Research Director, Marion Ruth Tapper, for their support for the compilation of this volume, and to William Davies of Cambridge University Press for his encouragement and patience. We must thank the National Trust for permission to use and quote from the Disraeli Papers in the Bodleian Library, which are referred to herein as the Hughenden Papers; and we would like to thank the owners of copyright in other materials which contributors have been permitted to consult and to cite. We must also express our gratitude to Dr Harold Merskey for his generous assistance with the chapter on Disraeli's illness. Like all students of Disraeli's career, we must acknowledge a special obligation to the Disraeli Project at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Its edition of Benjamin Disraeli Letters has been a fundamental source.
In order to allow consultation of any edition, Disraeli's novels, together with Lord George Bentinck, are normally cited by reference to book or part (large roman) and chapter number (small roman) (in the case of Hartlebury, the large roman numerals denote the volume number). Letters are cited by reference to their serial number and volume and page number in Benjamin Disraeli Letters.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999