Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey
Four witty and biting biographies of Victorians that take aim at the moral superiority of their subject’s time.Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation.
Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four "eminent Victorians" dropped an explosive charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918.
This edition is unique in being fully annotated and in drawing on the full range of Strachey's manuscript materials and literary remains.
Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four "eminent Victorians" dropped an explosive charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918.
This edition is unique in being fully annotated and in drawing on the full range of Strachey's manuscript materials and literary remains.
Կատեգորիաներ:
Տարի:
2018
Հրատարակչություն:
Standard Ebooks
Լեզու:
english
ISBN:
3A6F07FC2A8B31F8CF840674A48931C33D8B22EC
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AZW3 , 925 KB
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english, 2018