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Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians
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Cardinal Manning * Florence Nightingale * Thomas Arnold * General Gordon

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. This edition is unique in being fully annotated and in drawing on the full range of Strachey's manuscript materials and literary remains.

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About the author: 

John Sutherland is the author of s Heathcliff a Murderer? and three other literary puzzle books in OWC. He has edited numerous OWC Victorian classics, is a regular reviewer for the LRB, TLS, and Guardian, and writes a weekly column for the Guardian. He also appears regularly on the radio and television and was literary adviser for the recent Andrew Davies-scripted BBC adaptation of Trollope's The Way We Live Now. His biography of Stephen Spender is forthcoming.

Product details

ISBN : 9780199555017

Author: 
Lytton Strachey; John Sutherland
Pages
336 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 198 mm
Pub date
Feb 2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians