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Indlæser... Eminent Victorians (1918)af Lytton Strachey
   Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. An excellent book with short biographical sketches of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon. While Strachey was writing to critique the spirit of that age, his sketch of Nightingale was very good and was intriguing. (  ) Jon_Speed | Nov 24, 2020 |  The initial chapter (on Cardinal Manning) was exceedingly tedious, especially if one had no knowledge of who Cardinals Manning and Newman and some of the other major players were. The remaining chapters, if you managed to persevere through the first, picked up a bit, especially the final chapter on General Gordon. (  ) OperaMan_22 | Sep 9, 2020 | I read Lytton Strachey years ago and felt this book had been overhyped, but rereading it in my late sixties, I found myself admiring his use of telling facts to open up the iconic facades of his four subjects and reveal something true about each as a human being rather than as an archetype or Victorian exemplar. ( ) nmele | Jan 16, 2018 | Strachey was beloved by Virginia Woolf, plus it's about Victorians--two great tastes! I expect this book to be like eating peanut butter swirled into chocolate. om nom nom. wealhtheowwylfing | Feb 29, 2016 | This was my ebook-on-my-phone reading, which is why it took me so long to finish it. I enjoyed the section on Florence Nightingale the most and I happened to be reading the section on Cardinal Manning at a time when some of the themes covered in it came up in another context, which was nice and illuminating. I'm not sure if this was the best book to be read one or three screens' worth at a time, but it was OK. ( ) queen_ypolita | Feb 14, 2016 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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