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Eminent Victorians

Strachey Giles Lytton
Date de parution 29/03/2025
EAN: 9782322534944
Disponibilité Disponible chez l'éditeur
«Eminent Victorians» by Lytton Strachey shattered conventions when published in 1918, launching a new era of iconoclastic history with its irreverent portraits of four Victorian icons: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and Ge... Voir la description complète
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ÉditeurBOOKS ON DEMAND
Nombre de pages78
Langue du livreAnglais
AuteurStrachey Giles Lytton
FormatPaperback / softback
Type de produitLivre
Date de parution29/03/2025
Poids126 g
Dimensions (épaisseur x largeur x hauteur)0,60 x 14,80 x 21,00 cm
The Book That Redefined Biography - Iconoclastic Portraits of Victorian Heroes and Hypocrites
«Eminent Victorians» by Lytton Strachey shattered conventions when published in 1918, launching a new era of iconoclastic history with its irreverent portraits of four Victorian icons: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon. Strachey, a leading light of the Bloomsbury Group, wielded satire and psychological insight to expose the contradictions beneath their saintly reputations, forever changing how biography was written.The work opens with Manning's ecclesiastical power struggles, revealing how ambition masked as piety shaped the Oxford Movement. Nightingale emerges as both heroic reformer and tyrannical perfectionist her wartime achievements juxtaposed with personal ruthlessness. Strachey's take on Arnold dismantles the myth of the benign educator, showing how his Rugby School reforms bred militaristic conformity. The final portrait of Gordon, the doomed imperialist in Khartoum, becomes a searing indictment of British hubris.More than just Victorian biographies, these essays dissect an entire age's moral pretensions. Strachey's razor-sharp prose mocking Arnold's "neat little sermons" or Gordon's messianic delusions pioneered literary modernism in historical writing. His archival rigor (digging through diaries and letters) pairs with wicked humor to humanize legends, making this essential reading for understanding how Edwardians rejected Victorian certainties after World War I's trauma.