Emily Jones

Tracing the multifaceted construction and deployment of the Disraeli myth and its legacy in Conservative (and conservative) politics. During his lifetime, Benjamin Disraeli, the late-Victorian Conservative Prime Minister (and popular novelist), was often branded as unprincipled and opportunistic – claims that were frequently laced with antisemitism. Yet in the century following his death in 1881, Disraeli’s life and ideas were...