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Benjamin Disraeli's twelve published novels are all imaginatively autobiographical “psychological romances.” The ambivalences of their heroes’ character and the conflicts of their plots reflect similar tensions in Disraeli's political career. The early novels from
Vivian Grey
to
Venetia
focus on issues of self‐definition, reflecting Disraeli's youthful adoption of a Byronic persona and the challenges posed by the pervasive anti‐Semitism he faced. The political trilogy of the 1840s,
Coningsby
,
Sybil
, and
Tancred
, attempts to define a new heroic basis for Conservative politics and introduces the subgenre known as the political novel.
Lothair
(1870) also reflects Disraeli's views – in particular the threats to the British constitution he believed were posed by the Catholic Church.
Endymion
(1880), by contrast, seems removed from any sense of controversy. Disraeli's greatest political achievements and fame came during his second term as Prime Minister (1874–80) and consisted of both his government's progressive domestic legislation and the triumphant diplomatic defense of Britain's interests abroad.
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Benjamin Disraeli's twelve published novels are all imaginatively autobiographical “psychological romances.
” The ambivalences of their heroes’ character and the conflicts of their plots reflect similar tensions in Disraeli's political career.
The early novels from
Vivian Grey
to
Venetia
focus on issues of self‐definition, reflecting Disraeli's youthful adoption of a Byronic persona and the challenges posed by the pervasive anti‐Semitism he faced.
The political trilogy of the 1840s,
Coningsby
,
Sybil
, and
Tancred
, attempts to define a new heroic basis for Conservative politics and introduces the subgenre known as the political novel.
Lothair
(1870) also reflects Disraeli's views – in particular the threats to the British constitution he believed were posed by the Catholic Church.
Endymion
(1880), by contrast, seems removed from any sense of controversy.
Disraeli's greatest political achievements and fame came during his second term as Prime Minister (1874–80) and consisted of both his government's progressive domestic legislation and the triumphant diplomatic defense of Britain's interests abroad.
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