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The Columbia History of the British NovelThe sequence of formative conversations that constitutes the novel's primary plot, in fact, can be read as a series of repetitions of the protopolitical conversations that first "agitated [the schoolboys'] young hearts" and in which politics was so obviously simply the vehicle for other passions. The "keen relish" with which the boys read and discuss accounts -519- of politics and the "excited intelligence" with which they worship their political heroes hint at the homoerotics with which Disraeli associates all interactions among men. This association returns in passing when we learn that male political canvassers wear dresses to round up voters, and with force when Coningsby is reunited with his friend at Oxford. Their "congress of friendship" unbroken, each man "poured forth his mind without stint," and the narrator blesses their union even as he describes the conversation in such a way as to suggest that one man-not two-is present. "Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour." The homoerotics of manly conversation constitute Disraeli's version of a reformed politics ...» |
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