Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian EnglandWhat is the connection between citizenship and friendship in Victorian fiction? Why do Victorian writers use the portrayal of relations between mentor and protégé 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Pure Oliver or Representation without Agency | 25 |
Benjamin Disraeli Judaism | 47 |
Tancred and the Character of Influence | 70 |
Excursus The Economic Judaism of Karl Marx | 92 |
The Music of Sapphic Friendship in George Eliots | 127 |
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Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England Richard Dellamora No preview available - 2004 |