LEADER 02293nam 22003732 450 001 9910813134003321 005 20170607111735.0 010 $a1-78138-308-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000853369 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781383087 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4721564 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000853369 100 $a20170307d2016|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBenjamin Disraeli and John Murray $ethe Politician, the publisher, and the representative /$fRegina Akel$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 206 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017). 311 $a1-78138-307-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis book tells the story of an early nineteenth-century London newspaper, the Representative, more important for the people who took part in its inception than for its journalistic merits. The gallery of characters who appear in the narrative includes prominent figures of the age, literary as well as political, such as Sir Walter Scott and his son-in-law, John Gibson Lockhart; Foreign Secretary George Canning; and certainly publisher John Murray II. The pivotal figure is, however, a very young Benjamin Disraeli, whose brilliant mind already displayed great powers of observation, verbal expression and manipulation of his elders and betters. Written in a fluent style, and drawing upon previously untapped original sources at The Bodleian Library and The John Murray Archive at The National Library of Scotland, the book presents documented proof that the events narrated are quite different from what has traditionally been accepted as truth, at the same time it unveils hitherto unknown facets of well-known figures of the age. 607 $aGreat Britain$xIntellectual life$y19th century 676 $a941.081092 700 $aAkel$b Regina$01632834 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813134003321 996 $aBenjamin Disraeli and John Murray$93972267 997 $aUNINA