Successes and Failures of Benjamin Disraeli’s Rhetoric and Heresthetics: Corn Laws, Franchise, and Empire

It is not news that Benjamin Disraeli was a reckless and shape-shifting politician. This chapter claims that he was one of those rare shape-shifters who practised what has been called ‘heresthetics’, namely the art and science of turning a losing position to a winning one. His manoeuvres in 1846 (Co...

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Main Author: Iain McLean
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2025-04-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/15562
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