like most of disraeli's novels, "endymion" is a romance, although disraeli took the unusual step of setting it between 1819 and 1859. this meant that the hero of the novel–endymion ferrars–had to be a whig, rather than a tory. the time period that disraeli chose was dominated by the whig party; there would have been little opportunity for a young, rising tory. given that, it seems likely that disraeli chose the time period in order to move a final time in the world in which he grew up and began his ascent.