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DESCRIPTION:Please join the C19 Anglophone Collective for an upcoming talk 
 by Rachel Teukolsky\, Associate Professor in the English Department at Van
 derbilt University\, and author of The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing
  and Modernist Aesthetics. Her talk\, “Disraeli\, Arendt\, and the Fasci
 st Novel\,” will be held in the Ide Room from 1–2:30pm on Friday\, Mar
 ch 1\, with drinks and snacks to follow.\n\nAbstract: What is the relation
 ship between literature and power\, and how did some nineteenth-century no
 vels or artforms develop authoritarian values? My lens on the question is 
 Hannah Arendt’s study The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951)\, which devo
 tes a short\, ten-page chapter to Benjamin Disraeli\, the Prime Minister o
 f Britain in 1868 and again from 1874 to 1880. I take Arendt’s brief ins
 ights as the starting point for investigating Disraeli’s aesthetics of t
 he far right. The fact that a Prime Minister was also a novelist captures 
 our attention\, especially since his novels are thinly disguised political
  manifestoes. I argue that Disraeli’s novels Coningsby (1845) and Tancre
 d (1847) belonged to a long Romanticism\, opposing moves toward democracy\
 , reason\, and utilitarianism\, and espousing values of beauty\, passion\,
  and eroticism toward authoritarian ends. The talk follows Arendt in obser
 ving a long durée of conservatism whose trajectory moves from the ninetee
 nth century into the twentieth. (I also acknowledge and discuss the anachr
 onism of using “fascism” as a concept by which to study a nineteenth-c
 entury writer.) The lecture will conclude with a turn to the conservative 
 German theorist Carl Schmitt\, who reputedly had a picture of Disraeli han
 ging over his desk\, and whose authoritarian political philosophy shows st
 riking echoes of Disraeli\, linking both in a long Romanticism.
LOCATION:Ide Memorial Commons Room\, THH 420
SUMMARY:Disraeli\, Arendt\, and the Fascist Novel: Talk by Rachel Teukolsky
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