The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli, 18181851
Contributors: Charles Richmond (Editor); Paul Smith (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521497299
Subjects: Biography: general; British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; Political Parties; c 1800 to c 1900; Conservatism; Prime ministers; Western Europe - General; History; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Europe - Great Britain - General; Biography/Autobiography; Reference; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Criticism and interpretation; Historical - British; Disraeli, Benjamin; Disraeli, Benjamin,--Earl of Beaconsfield,--1804-1881; History / Great Britain; 19th century; Legislators; 1804-1881; Biography; Disraeli, Benjamin,; Earl of Beaconsfield,; Great Britain
First sentence: In 1852, one month after Disraeli became chancellor of the exchequer, Heinrich Heine wrote: 'A singular phenomenon in England - a novelist becoming a minister.'