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A study of the connection between citizenship and friendship in Victorian fiction.

Trade Review
"An engaging and detailed study of the mixed effects of maneuvering the political machine, Friendship's Bonds is also an astute analysis of how the business of affiliation is a shifting, sifting business." * GLQ *
"Dellamora's method consistently and usefully interweaves analyses of literary text with important social, political, and legal events." * Victorian Studies *

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Pure Oliver, or Representation without Agency
Chapter 2. Constituting the National Subject: Benjamin Disraeli, Judaism, and the Legacy of William Beckford
Chapter 3. "Tancred" and the Character of Influence
Excursus. The Economic Judaism of Karl Marx
Chapter 4. The Lesser Holocausts of William Gladstone and Anthony Trollope
Chapter 5. The Music of Sapphic Friendship in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
Chapter 6. Aesthetic Politics in Henry James's "The Tragic Muse"
Coda. Rethinking Friendship in Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband"
Notes
A Note on Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 31 August 2004
      ISBN-13 9780812238136
      978-0812238136
      ISBN-10 0812238133

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A study of the connection between citizenship and friendship in Victorian fiction.

      Trade Review
      "An engaging and detailed study of the mixed effects of maneuvering the political machine, Friendship's Bonds is also an astute analysis of how the business of affiliation is a shifting, sifting business." * GLQ *
      "Dellamora's method consistently and usefully interweaves analyses of literary text with important social, political, and legal events." * Victorian Studies *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      Chapter 1. Pure Oliver, or Representation without Agency
      Chapter 2. Constituting the National Subject: Benjamin Disraeli, Judaism, and the Legacy of William Beckford
      Chapter 3. "Tancred" and the Character of Influence
      Excursus. The Economic Judaism of Karl Marx
      Chapter 4. The Lesser Holocausts of William Gladstone and Anthony Trollope
      Chapter 5. The Music of Sapphic Friendship in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda"
      Chapter 6. Aesthetic Politics in Henry James's "The Tragic Muse"
      Coda. Rethinking Friendship in Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband"
      Notes
      A Note on Further Reading
      Bibliography
      Index
      Acknowledgments

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