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Friendship's Bonds - Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England (Hardcover, New)
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Friendship's Bonds - Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England (Hardcover, New)
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What is the connection between citizenship and friendship in
Victorian fiction? Why do Victorian writers use the portrayal of
relations between mentor and protege as a way of meditating on the
possibilities of democratic governance? In Friendship's Bonds,
Richard Dellamora revisits the classical and Victorian dream that a
just society would be one governed by friends. In the actual
struggle over who should or should not be eligible for the rights
of citizenship, however, the ideal of fraternity was troubled by
anxieties about the commingling of populations and the possible
conversion of male intimacy into sexual anarchy. Focusing on the
writings of Benjamin Disraeli as well as those of his leading
political rival, William Gladstone, Dellamora considers how
sodomitic intimations inflect debates on the enfranchisement of
Jews as well as artisans, women, and the Irish during the period.
Examining works as various as Karl Marx's essay on the Jewish
Question, Victorian Bible commentaries, and novels by Dickens,
George Eliot, Trollope, and Henry James, Dellamora further argues
that the novel and other creative arts, such as portraiture and the
theater, offered important sites for evoking and shaping the
Victorians' imagination and experience of democratic possibilities.
Systematically bringing together discourses on queer identities in
Victorian England, Jewish identities in nineteenth-century literary
and political culture, and the ways these powerful forms of
otherness intersect, Friendship's Bonds offers an intriguing
analysis of how the dream of a perfect sympathy between friends
continually challenged Victorians' capacity to imagine into
existence a world not of strangers or enemies but of fellow
citizens.
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