Eminent Victorians - 9781542909143

On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "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.

• | Author: Lytton Strachey
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 322 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1542909147
• | ISBN-13: 9781542909143