Nils Clausson, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Nils Clausson

Nils Clausson is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Regina (Canada). He is the author of Oxford University Press’s online bibliography of Benjamin Disraeli and of numerous articles on his novels. He is researching a book on Disraeli and the forms of nineteenth-century fiction.

Disraelian Conservatism & the Romantic Imagination

By Nils Clausson|2021-03-18T11:45:36-05:00March 22nd, 2021|Categories: Conservatism, Imagination, Literature, Moral Imagination, Politics|

For the conservative Benjamin Disraeli, the answers to the political problems of the present lie in the restoration of the ideals of the past. Restoration is not an attempt to reject the present and escape or return to an earlier state of a society; it is rather a creative, imaginative effort to infuse the present [...]