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28 de oct. de 2008 · Sybil, or, The two nations : Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield, 1804-1881 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
30 de sept. de 2023 · The “Two Nations” of the subtitle refer to the divisions in Britain between the rich and the poor, each of whom might as well be living in a different country from the other. In the novel, Disraeli highlights the terrible living conditions of the poor and the shocking injustices of how they were treated by most employers and land ...
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Sybil, or the Two Nations. Benjamin Disraeli. 3.30. 1,185 ratings112 reviews. 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.
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- Introduction: A Romance and A Political Manifesto
- A Critical View of Both Country Aristocracy and Wealthy Industrialists
- “Never Was Such A Plunder” — Disraeli’s Critique of Post-Reformation Nobility
- Two Nations
- Sybil as A Symbolic Embodiment of One Nation
- An Impassable Gulf and Reconciliation Through Marriage
- References and Further Reading
Sybil; or, The Two Nations, the second of Disraeli’s Young England trilogy (1845), is one of the most important mid-nineteenth century Condition-of-England novels. Inspired by the rise of the Chartists, the novel deals with the problems of the growing social and economic disparity between the antagonistic communities in England — the rich and the p...
The novel opens on the eve of the 1837 Derby with a glance at the lives of the idle, self-indulgent upper classes. A group of aristocratic young men, including Charles Egremont, the younger brother of Lord Marney, discuss the coming races at a sumptuous London gentlemen’s club. Interestingly, Disraeli goes out of his way to emphasize that Lord Marn...
Sybilcenters on the awakening social conscience of Charles Egremont, who becomes increasingly disillusioned with the way many of the aristocracy (including his brother) treat the labouring poor. Charles and his brother therefore represent two opposite poles of the English aristocracy. The former is generous and tender-hearted, whereas the latter is...
The result of such stealing what Disraeli polemically considers an entire community’s wealth is to divide the country into two nations. In a famous passage, which takes place in the ruins of Marney Abbey, Stephen Morley tells Egremont about the division of England into two nations: the rich and the poor Listening to Morley, Egremont responds, “Well...
In the ruins of Marney Abbey, Egremont also encounters a third stranger, Gerard’s daughter Sybil. Hearing her singing the evening hymn to the Virgin in the distant ruined chapel, he becomes captivated by her angelic voice. Disraeli describes his title character as an angelic lady (donna angelica), making her both the ideal of female purity and a sy...
When Egremont passionately reveals his love to Sybil, asking for her hand, she turns him down because she believes that the gulf that separates rich and poor is impassable. In the meantime, the House of Commons rejects the Chartist petition after violent riots take place in Birmingham and elsewhere. After the outbreak of riots, Egremont makes an im...
Blake, Robert. Disraeli. London: Eyre & Spottiswode Publishers, 1967. Disraeli, Benjamin. Sybil, or The Two Nations. Project Gutenberg. Fido, Martin. ‘From His Own Observation’: Sources of Working Class Passages in Disraeli’s Sybil, The Modern Language Review, 72(2) (Apr., 1977) 268-284. Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates. Vol. XLIX, London: Thomas Cu...
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.
