Bibliography

Biography and Publications

Blake, Robert.  Disraeli.  New York:  St. Martin’s Press, 1967.

---. Disraeli’s Grand Tour:  Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land, 1830-31.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1982.

Disraeli, Benjamin. Alroy. London: Longmans, 1871.

---. Contarini Fleming: A Psychological Romance. New York: AMS Press, 1976.

---. Coningsby, or, The New Generation. Ed. Sheila M. Smith. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

---.  Letters.  Ed. J. A. W. Gunn, et. al.  6 vols.  Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 1982-97.

---. Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography. With a new introduction by Robert W. Kamphuis, Jr. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997.

---. Tancred, or The New Crusade. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1870-1.

---. The Wondrous Tale of Alroy, along with The Rise of Iskander. London: Saunders and Otley, 1833.  

Monypenny, William Flavelle  and George Earle Buckle.  The Life of Benjamin Disraeli Earl of Beaconsfield.  6 vols.  London:  Murray, 1910-20.

Ridley, Jane.  Young Disraeli:  1804-1846.  New York:  Crown, 1995.

Roth, Cecil.  Benjamin Disraeli.  New York:  Philosophical Library, 1952. 

Smith, Paul.  Disraeli:  A Brief Life.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Weintraub, Stanley.  Disraeli:  A Biography.  New York:  Truman Talley Books/Dutton, 1993. 

Contemporary Reviews

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” The American Monthly Magazine 1 (1 June 1833): 261.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” American Monthly Review 4 (October 1833): 279-81.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” The Athenæum: Journal of English and Foreign Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts. No. 280 (9 March 1833): 150-1.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” The Court Journal 5 (1833): 202-3.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” The Examiner no. 1319 (Sunday, May 12, 1833): 293.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” The London Literary Gazette: Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. No. 842 (9 March 1833): 146-8.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” Monthly Review, part 1 (1833): 588-9.

“Review of The Wondrous Tale of Alroy.” The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal 37 (March 1833): 342-6.

Bibliography and Criticism

Abrahams, Israel. “A Masterpiece for the Week: Disraeli’s ‘Alroy.’” The Jewish World. No. 3005 (11 Tamuz 5673/16 July 1913), 9-10. Rpt. Beaconsfield Quarterly, no. 3, 41-3.

Brantlinger, Patrick. “Nations and Novels:  Disraeli, George Eliot, and Orientalism.” Victorian Studies: A Journal of the Humanities, Arts and Sciences 35, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 255-75.

Braun, Thom.  Disraeli the Novelist.  London:  George Allen & Unwin, 1981.

Endelman, Todd M.  “Disraeli’s Jewishness Reconsidered.”  Modern Judaism 5(1985): 109-23.

---., and Tony Kushner, eds. Disraeli's Jewishness. London and Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002.

Engel, Elliot and Margaret F. King.  The Victorian Novel before Victoria:  British Fiction during the Reign of William IV, 1830-37.  New York:  St. Martin’s, 1984.

Fisch, Harold.  “Disraeli’s Hebraic Compulsions.”  In Essays Presented to Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday.  H. S. Zimmels, J. Rabbinowitz and I. Finestein, eds.  London:  Soncino Press, 1967.

Graham, Peter W.  “Byron and Disraeli.”  Victorian Newsletter 69 (Spring 1986): 26-30.

Guedalla, Philip. “A Note on ‘Alroy.’” Alroy. The Bradenham Edition. London: Peter Davies, 1927.

Holloway, John.  The Victorian Sage:  Studies in Argument.  London:  Archon, 1962.

Hoyt, Charles Alva, ed.  Minor British Novelists.  Carbondale:  Southern Illinois University Press, 1967.

Lessenich, Rolf P.  “Synagogue, Church, and Young England:  The Jewish Contribution to British Civilization in Benjamin Disraeli’s Trilogy.”  Jewish Life and Suffering as Mirrored in English and American Literature/Jüdisches Leben und Leiden im Spiegel der englischen und amerikanischen Literatur.  Beiträgezur Eng. & Amer. Lit. 6.  Paderborn:  Schöningh, 1987.  33-46.

Levine, Richard A. Benjamin Disraeli. New York: Twayne, 1968.

Machin, Ian.  Disraeli.  London:  Longman, 1995.

Masefield, Muriel.  Peacocks and Primroses:  A Survey of Disraeli’s Novels.  London:  Geoffrey Bles, 1953. 

Matthews, John.  “Literature and Politics:  A Disraelian View.”  English Studies in Canada 10,2 (June 1984): 172-87.

Nickerson, Charles C.  “Benjamin Disraeli’s Contarini Fleming and Alroy.”  Journal of the Rutgers University Library 39 (1977): 72-97.

Ogden, James.  “Disraeli the Novelist and ‘the Real Social Condition of the Country.’”  The Aligarh Critical Miscellany 3,1 (1990): 86-106.

O'Kell, Robert. “The Autobiographical Nature of Disraeli’s Early Fiction.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction 31 (1976): 260-66.

O'Kell, Robert. “The Psychological Romance” [“The Psychological Romance: Disraeli’s Early Fiction and Political Apprenticeship”]. Dissertation Abstracts International 35 (1975): 7264A.

Poovey, Mary.  “Disraeli, Gaskell, and the Condition of England.”  The Columbia History of the British Novel. Ed. John Richetti.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1994.  508-32.

Ragussis, Michael.  Figures of Conversion:  “The Jewish Question” & English National Identity.  Durham:  Duke University Press, 1995.

Richmond, Charles and Paul Smith, ed.  The Self-Fashioning of Disraeli:  1818-1851.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Rozen, Minna.  “Pedigree Remembered, Reconstructed, Invented:  Benjamin Disraeli between East and West.”  In The Jewish Discovery of Islam:  Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis. Ed. Martin Kramer.  Tel Aviv:  The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, 1999.  49-75.

Schwarz, Daniel R.  “Disraeli Abroad: The Making of a ‘Continental Mind.’”  Creditable Warriors:  1830-1876.  English Literature and the Wider World 3.  Michael Cotsell, ed.  London:  Ashfield, 1990.  53-66.

---.  Disraeli’s Fiction.  New York:  Macmillan, 1979. 

---. “‘Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin’: Jewish Perspectives in Disraeli’s Fiction.” Disraeli's Jewishness. Eds. Todd M. Endelman and Tony Kushner. London and Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. 40-61.

Speare, Morris Edmund.  The Political Novel:  Its Development in England and America.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1924.

Spector, Sheila A. “Alroy as Disraeli's 'Ideal Ambition.’” British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature. Ed. Sheila A. Spector. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002. 235-48.

Stewart, R. W., ed.  Benjamin Disraeli:  A List of Writings by Him, and Writings about Him.  The Scarecrow Author Bibliographies, No. 7.    Metuchen, N. J.:  Scarecrow Press, 1972. 

---.  Disraeli’s Novels Reviewed, 1826-1968.  Metuchen, N. J.:  Scarecrow Press, 1975. 

Stone, Donald.  The Romantic Impulse in Victorian Fiction.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1980.

Sultana, Donald.  Benjamin Disraeli in Spain, Malta and Albania, 1830-32:  A Monograph.  London, 1976.

Valman, Nadia. “Manly Jews: Disraeli, Jewishness and Gender.” Disraeli’s Jewishness. Eds. Todd M. Endelman and Tony Kushner. London and Portland, Or.: Vallentine Mitchell, 2002. 72-75.

Vincent, John.  Disraeli.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1990. 

Weeks, Richard G., Jr.  “Disraeli as Political Egotist:  A Literary and Historical Investigation.”  Journal of British Studies 28,4 (October 1989): 387-410.

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Adler, Michael. “Alroy, or Alrui, David (called also El David and Menahem ben Suleiman ibn Al-ru.”  The Jewish Encyclopedia.  New York and London:  Funk and Wagnalls, 1901.

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Baron, Salo.  A Social and Religious History of the Jews.  Volume III:  Heirs of Rome and Persia.  Volume V:  Religious Controls and Dissentions. New York:  Columbia University Press, and Philadelphia:  The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1957. 

Basnage, Jacques.  The History of the Jews, from Jesus Christ to the Present Time:  Containing Their Antiquities, Their Religion, Their Rites, The Dispersion of the Ten Tribes in the East and the Persecutions this Nation has Suffer’d in the West.  Being a Supplement and Continuation of the History of Josephus.  Trans. Tho. Taylor.  London, 1708.

Benjamin of Tudela.  Travels of Rabbi Benjamin.  Trans. R. Gerrans.  London, 1783.

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Calmet, Augustin.  An Historical, Critical, Chronological and Etymological Dictionary of the Holy Bible.  Tr. Samuel D’Oyly and John Colson.  3 vols.  London, 1732.  Rev. ed.  Calmet’s Great Dictionary of the Holy Bible:  Historical, Critical, Geographical, and Etymological.  Ed. C. Taylor.  3 vols.  London:  C. Taylor, 1797-1801. 

D’Israeli, Isaac. Romances by I. D’Israeli. London: Cadell and Davies, 1799.

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---.  Sketches of Persia, from the Journals of a Traveller in the East.  2 vols.  London:  Murray, 1828.

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