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Ixion in Heaven

Benjamin Disraeli

First published 1845
Type Short Fiction
Length Novelette

Synopsis

<br> Concerning this work and "The Infernal Marriage" (1834): "The two tales are <u>Satires</u> of contemporary England set in the world of the ancient Greek <u>Myths</u>. ... the grim fate of Ixion – a treacherous monarch who is bound to a wheel of fire in Hell because he boasted of having slept with Hera – is treated by BD, fairly lightly, as an analogue of the treatment meted out to himself as a Jew attempting a political career in 19th-century Europe." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute

Notes


Published December 1832 and February 1833 in The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, vol 35 page 514-29 and vol 37 pp. 175-84. (Volume 36 contains 1832 material different in kind. All volumes viewed at HathiTrust.)

The New Monthly Magazine was published by {{publisher|Henry Colburn}}, which explains the citation "1832-1833 in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine" --SFE3, biographical entry for Disraeli, by John Clute.

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Publications (9)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1845 Alroy; Ixion in Heaven; The Infernal Marriage; Popanilla Longmans, Green and Co. Collection
1925 Ixion in Heaven Jonathan Cape Chapbook
1926 Popanilla and Other Tales Peter Davies Collection
September 1980 Cover The Phoenix Tree: An Anthology of Myth Fantasy Avon Anthology 15
September 1991 Cover The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century Dedalus Anthology 108
September 1991 Cover The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century Dedalus Anthology 108
August 2012 Cover Pandemonium: Lost Souls Jurassic London Anthology 67
August 2012 Cover Pandemonium: Lost Souls Jurassic London Anthology |67
May 2013 Cover Pandemonium: Lost Souls Jurassic London Anthology |67