Eminent Victorians
Cardinal Manning; Dr. Arnold; Florence Nightingale; General Gordon
Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century, Biography & Memoir, Historical
| Author: | Lytton Strachey | ISBN: | 9780679640158 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group | Publication: | June 16, 1999 |
| Imprint: | Modern Library | Language: | English |
| Author: | Lytton Strachey |
| ISBN: | 9780679640158 |
| Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
| Publication: | June 16, 1999 |
| Imprint: | Modern Library |
| Language: | English |
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
"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.
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time
"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.
