Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1. The Representative Affair
2. The Byronic Legacy
3. Virtues and Vanities
4. Henrietta: A Love Story
5. What Is He? The Crisis Examined
6. Prejudice
7. Vindication
8. “The Arts of a Designing Person”: Disraeli, Peel, and Young England / Coningsby; or the New Generation
9. Sir Robert Peel and the Apotheosis of Young England
10. Sybil; Two Nations, or One?: Disraeli’s Allegorical Romance
11. The Corn Law Debate of 1846 and the Politics of Protection
12. Tancred: Principles, Expediency and Trust
13. Leadership
14. On Top of the Greasy Pole: The Disestablishment Crisis of 1868
15. Lothair: The Politics of Love, Faith and Duty
16. “The Family Romance”: Politics, Power and Love in Disraeli’s Endymion
17. The Faery Queen, the “Arch Villain,” and “the Mephistopheles of Statesmanship”
18. The Conquering Hero / Falconet
Bibliography
Index