Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey’s biographical essays on four ‘eminent Victorians’ dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and raised the genre to the level of high literary art. Lytton Strachey approached his subjects with scepticism rather than reverence, and his iconoclastic wit and engaging narratives thrilled as well as shocked his contemporaries. Debunking Church, Public School and Empire, his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold of Rugby, and General Gordon of Khartoum changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation.
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Jahr:
1986
Verlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Sprache:
english
ISBN 10:
0141958847
ISBN 13:
9780141958842
Serien:
Penguin Classics
Datei:
EPUB, 1.80 MB
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english, 1986