Author | Benjamin Disraeli |
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Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Series | Young England trilogy |
Genre | Fiction |
Publisher | Henry Colburn |
Publication date | 1845 |
Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you're looking for. Apple also revealed upgrades of its MacBook Pro laptop line, as well as Mavericks, the latest edition of the company’s Mac OS X operating system software. Mavericks will be available at no charge to Mac computer users. Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli.Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived — or, what is generally called the Condition.
Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Sybil traces the plight of the working classes of England. Disraeli was interested in dealing with the horrific conditions in which the majority of England's working classes lived — or, what is generally called the Condition of England question.
The book is a roman à thèse, or a novel with a thesis — which was meant to create a furor over the squalor that was plaguing England's working class cities.
Disraeli's novel was made into a silent film called Sybil in 1921, starring Evelyn Brent and Cowley Wright.
Disraeli's interest in this subject stemmed from his interest in the Chartist movement, a working-class political reformist movement that sought universal male suffrage and other parliamentary reforms. (Thomas Carlyle sums up the movement in his 1839 book Chartism.[1]) Chartism failed as a parliamentary movement (three petitions to Parliament were rejected); however, five of the 'Six Points' of Chartism would become a reality within a century of the group's formation.
Chartism demanded:
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There is no critical edition of Disraeli's novels. Most editions use the text of Longmans Collected Edition (1870–71).[2]