Eminent Victorians

Usado em estoque. Amarelado pelo tempo. Em Inglês. 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. Evangelism, liberalism, humanitarianism, education, imperialism - these were Stracheys targets: and he struck them beautifully - Michael Holroyd in the Introduction

Editora: Penguin Group

Ano: 1990

ISBN: 9780140183504

Autor: STRACHEY / Lytton Strachey