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Disraeli and “One Nation” in British cartoons, 1914-2016

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
This paper analyzes the cartoons featuring Benjamin Disraeli after his death and the concept of “One Nation”. It shows that Disraeli remained through the 20th century a persona which British cartoonists recurringly made use of, although Churchill, and to
Philippe Vervaecke
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Impressions of Disraeli: Mythmaking and the History of One Nation Conservatism, 1881-1940

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
In addressing the rise of Disraeli’s global status in the half century that followed his death in 1881, this article draws on a vast corpus of Anglophone biographies, histories, obituaries, paintings, films, and more, to chart the transformation of ...
Emily Jones
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Ian Gilmour and One Nation Conservatism

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2023
This article examines the place of Ian Gilmour (1926-2007) within the “One Nation” conservative tradition. First, it examines possible definitions of “One Nation” conservatism, rejecting claims that one can fully find its origins in the writings of ...
Edmund Neill
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Minding Literature’s Business: Cultivating a Sense of Evanescence Within Political Affairs [PDF]

, 2015
The paper investigates the relationship between political oratory and literature in Romania during the second part of the 19th century. Extending the theories of Jacques Rancière, Fredric Jameson, Slavoj Žižec, and Leonidas Donskis, I analyze the ...
Patraș, Roxana
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Queen Ṭǝru Wärq’s Necklace

Aethiopica, 2012
Miscellaneous Article The article, which traces the Ethiopian history of beads and necklaces, focuses on an unpublished necklace which belonged to Emperor Tewodros’s consort Queen Ṭǝru Wärq. Acquired by Robert Napier, apparently after her death in 1868,
Richard Pankhurst
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Competing Disraeli-isms: Tory Democracy and One-Nation Conservatism

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This chapter explores Benjamin Disraeli’s influence on two strands of Conservative Party ideology: Tory democracy and one-nation conservatism. Both rejected laissez-faire economics and promoted social reform, but one-nation conservatives favoured a more ...
David Jeffery
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Disraeli and Peacock

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
When Benjamin Disraeli met Thomas Love Peacock in 1848, he greeted him—to Peacock’s apparent surprise—as his ‘master’. Why should Disraeli have considered the prose satirist who was Shelley’s contemporary to be the leading influence on his early literary
Freya Johnston
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Successes and Failures of Benjamin Disraeli’s Rhetoric and Heresthetics: Corn Laws, Franchise, and Empire

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
It is not news that Benjamin Disraeli was a reckless and shape-shifting politician. This chapter claims that he was one of those rare shape-shifters who practised what has been called ‘heresthetics’, namely the art and science of turning a losing ...
Iain McLean
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Non, non, non ! Le Combat tory d’Enoch Powell contre les réformes de la Chambre des Lords en 1958 et 1969

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
This paper analyses why Enoch Powell opposed the 1958 and 1968-69 reforms of the House of Lords. He started his political career working at the Conservative Research Department that was influenced by the Disraelian legacy, and thus developed a Tory ...
Stéphane Porion
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The Disraeli Roads of Anfield, Urban Renewal and Sporting Culture

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
At the tail end of the Victorian era, professional football was an emerging cultural development within British society. Expanding industrial cities such as Liverpool subsequently saw the emergence of large footballing venues typified by Anfield football
Ben Williams
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