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Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon

Revolutionary textbook on bourgeois society, it marked an epoch in the art of biography in which old myths of high Victorianism are cracked, exposing the hypocrisy of the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.

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  • "四名人傳"
  • "Eminent Victorians"
  • "Eminent Victorians"@it
  • "Si ming ren zhuan"
  • "Sammlung"
  • "四名人传"

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  • "Revolutionary textbook on bourgeois society, it marked an epoch in the art of biography in which old myths of high Victorianism are cracked, exposing the hypocrisy of the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values."@en
  • "Reprint of a 1918 manuscript that examines the Victorian age through the lives of an ecclesiastic, an educational authority, a woman of action, and a man of adventure."@en
  • "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it. It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch. If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy. He will attack his subject in unexpected places; he will fall upon the flank, or the rear; he will shoot a sudden, revealing searchlight into obscure recesses, hitherto undivined."
  • "Lytton Stratchey's 1918 biography of four eminent figures from the Victorian era (Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon) established his unique style of irreverence and wit that cemented forever his place in the biographer hall of fame."@en
  • "When Lytton Strachey published Emininent Victorians, he took the general perception of the Victorian age among English-speaking readers and turned it upside-down. Four of the most eminent and idealized heroic figures of the Victorian age came under his witty and unsparing gaze and emerged, astonishingly enough, as human beings."@en
  • "This book consists of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had till then been regarded as heroes and heroine. They were: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, General Gordon. The book made Strachey's name and placed him firmly in the top rank of biographers, where he remains. THE history of the Victorian Age will never be written; we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian-ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art. Concerning the Age which has just passed, our fathers and our grandfathers have poured forth and accumulated so vast a quantity of information that the industry of a Ranke would be submerged by it, and the perspicacity of a Gibbon would quail before it. It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch."
  • "Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with skepticism and Strachey's wit, iconoclasm, and narrative skill liberated the biographical enterprise. His portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon changed perceptions of the Victorians for a generation."@en
  • "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."

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  • "Sources"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "History"@es
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Biography"@es
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biografieën (vorm)"

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  • "Store Victorianere : General Gordon, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, Kardinal Manning"@da
  • "Macht und Frömmigkeit: Florence Nightingale, Kardinal Manning : 2 Bildnisse aus d. Viktorian. Zeit"
  • "Wei duo li ya shi dai si ming ren zhuan"
  • "Victorianos eminentes"@es
  • "Victorianos eminentes"
  • "Store Victorianere : General Gordon"@da
  • "Naitingēru den : haka 1-pen"
  • "Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold, General Gordon"@en
  • "Tijdgenooten van Koningin Victoria"
  • "Macht und Frömmigkeit : zwei Bildnisse aus der viktorianischen Zeit"
  • "Victoriens éminents"
  • "Eminent Victorians"
  • "Eminent Victorians"@en
  • "Store Victorianere : General Gordon : Florence Nightingale : Kardinal Manning"@da
  • "Ludzie epoki Wiktorii : Florence Nightingale, generał Gordon"@pl
  • "Store Victorianere / (Overs. fra engelsk efter Eminent Victorians)"@da
  • "Eminent Victorians : the ill. ed"
  • "Macht und Frömmigkeit: Florence Nightingale"
  • "Store Victorianere"@da
  • "Store Victorianere"
  • "Macht und Frömmigkeit : Florence Nightingale, Kardinal Manning ; zwei Bildnisse aus der viktorianischen Zeit"
  • "Eminenti vittoriani"@it
  • "維多利亞時代四名人傳"
  • "Macht und Frömmigkeit : Florence Nightingale, Kardinal Manning, zwei Bildnisse aus der victorianischen Zeit"
  • "Eminenti vittoriani : il Cardinale Manning, Florence Nightingale, il Dr. Arnold, il Generale Gordon"@it
  • "Victoriens Éminents"
  • "Eminent victorians"@en
  • "Eminent victorians"
  • "Victorianos eminentes : el Cardenal Manning, Florence Nightingale, el Dr. Arnold, El general Gordon"@es
  • "维多利亚时代四名人传"
  • "Weiduoliya shi dai si ming ren zhuan"
  • "Macht und Frömmigkeit : Florence Nightingale, Kardinal Manning; zwei Bildnisse aus der viktorianischen Zeit"
  • "Eminent Victorians : Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightengale, General Gordon"
  • "Victoriens éminents. Traduit de l'anglais par Jacques Dembasle. Préface d'André Maurois"
  • "Victoriens émiments"
  • "Store Victorianere : Omsl.: Austin Grandjean"@da
  • "Victoriens eminents"
  • "Eminenti Vittoriani : il cardinale Manning Florence Nightingale il dr. Arnold il generale Gordon"@it
  • "The eminent Victorians"@en
  • "Store victorianere"@da

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