Sandra Mayer assesses the intersections of literary and political fame in Disraeli’s public image.
Pegasus and Carthorse: The Many Shades of Disraeli’s Celebrity
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Sandra Mayer (PhD, University of Vienna) explores Disraeli’s dual public role of celebrated novelist and venerable statesman that crucially shaped his reputation as one of the ‘eminent Victorians,’ and the celebrifying impact of Disraeli’s position as a social, ethnic, and intellectual outsider. All these manifestations of fame dynamically interacted and colluded in the shaping of Disraeli’s public profile and eventually became mutually sustaining.
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The extraordinary career of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) forged intersections between political action, visionary leadership, creative achievement, and romantic self-invention. As a best-selling novelist, flamboyant dandy, notable wit, ethnic outsider, and icon of Conservative politics giving rise to a powerful political myth, his multifaceted public persona has become emblematically associated with various aspects of Victorian literary, political, visual, and material culture. Recent...
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