Benjamin Disraeli Letters (inbunden)
Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
554
Utgivningsdatum
1982-04-01
Förlag
University of Toronto Press
Medarbetare
Gunn, John A.W. (red.)/Matthews, John P. (red.)
Illustrationer
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
254 x 178 x 29 mm
Vikt
953 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
466:B&W 7 x 10 in or 254 x 178 mm Perfect Bound on White w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9781487592721

Benjamin Disraeli Letters

1815-1834, Volume I

Häftad,  Engelska, 1982-04-01
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The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place to the written word as an instrument of both business and pleasure. This volume includes 363 letters (many previously unpublished) from his school boy days to his establishment in the Tory camp under the patronage of Lord Lyndhurst. Most prominent are Disraeli's letters to his sister, Sarah, with whom he corresponded frequently over several decades. To her he confided his hopes, interspersed with his observations and descriptions of social, literary and political events. The letters to Sarah supply a skeleton around which Disraeli's young manhood can be reconstructed and shed valuable light on the remaining documents in the volume. The correspondence also includes accounts of his tour of the Low Countries and the Rhine in 1824, his adventurous trip to Spain, Greece, the Near East and Egypt in 1830, his tense negotiations with publishers and his campaign to shine as a member of aristocratic society and win political patronage. The letters demonstrate the fine eye for detail and the capacity for self-dramatization and literary conceits which mark his novels. With their annotations they also provide a remarkably detailed account of life in the upper reaches of English society as viewed from below, and of Disraeli's ambitions to enter that life.
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Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) was one of the most important figures in nineteenth-century Europe, spending three decades in British government and twice serving as prime minister, as well as being a well-known literary figure. A convert to Anglicanism, he was Britain's first and thus far only Prime Minister of Jewish heritage. J.A.W. Gunn retired in 2001 as Sir Edward Peacock professor, after forty years service to Queen's University in the Department of Political Science. Appointed full professor in 1970, he was Head of Department 1975-83 and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1983. John P. Matthews was a professor emeritus of English at Queen's University, Kingston. Donald M. Schurman (1924-2013) was a professor of history at Queen's University. He also served at the Royal Military College. M.G. Wiebe is general editor emeritus of the Disraeli Project and was a professor of English at Queen's University.