Marketing and Denouncing the Aristocracy: Disraeli’s Vivian Grey
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This paper examines the features integral to the Silver-Fork novels and why they attracted middle-class readers. Selecting Vivian Grey as representative of this sub-genre, it reviews those elements generally required in a Silver-Fork fiction. It also explores how Disraeli, in Vivian Grey, restructures the formula of the Silver-Fork novels by his representation of the aristocracy. Cataloguing in detail what the upper class ate and wore and where they inhabited and visited, the Silver-Fork novel gave the bourgeois and the newly rich social standards and occupations to imitate. The huge popularity of the Silver-Fork fiction was indebted to the middle-class’s emulation of the upper classes. Vivian Grey includes many of the features commonly found in the Silver-Fork novels--beautiful, bejewelled women, large country estates, and sumptuous dinner parties; along with the other familiar elements of the genre. Disraeli, while devoting a significant portion of Vivian Grey to the itemized depiction of daily aristocratic life, mocks and criticizes the aristocracy. Thus Vivian Grey can also be read as the beginning of Disraeli’s “social problem” novels.
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This paper examines the features integral to the Silver-Fork novels and why they attracted middle-class readers. Selecting Vivian Grey as representative of this sub-genre, it reviews those elements generally required in a Silver-Fork fiction. It also explores how Disraeli, in Vivian Grey, restructures the formula of the Silver-Fork novels by his representation of the aristocracy. Cataloguing in detail what the upper class ate and wore and where they inhabited and visited, the Silver-Fork novel gave the bourgeois and the newly rich social standards and occupations to imitate. The huge popularity of the Silver-Fork fiction was indebted to the middle-class’s emulation of the upper classes. Vivian Grey includes many of the features commonly found in the Silver-Fork novels--beautiful, bejewelled women, large country estates, and sumptuous dinner parties; along with the other familiar elements of the genre. Disraeli, while devoting a significant portion of Vivian Grey to the itemized depiction of daily aristocratic life, mocks and criticizes the aristocracy. Thus Vivian Grey can also be read as the beginning of Disraeli’s “social problem” novels.
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