Eminent Victorians Paperback / softback
by Lytton Strachey
Part of the Penguin Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
Description
Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked.
In it Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:26/10/1989
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- ISBN:9780140183504
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Information
-
Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:26/10/1989
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140183504