Strachey Lytton Eminent Victorians Издательство: Oxford University Press Жанр: Oxford University Press Качество: Хорошее Страниц: 336 Формат: pdf, fb2, epub Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism 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.