Eminent Victorians

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780199555017
  • 26 februari 2009
  • 300 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Lytton Strachey

" Lytton Strachey, whose iconoclastic reexaminations of historical figures forever changed the course of modern biographical writing, was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was educated in a series of private schools and attended University College, Liverpool, before entering Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1899. In London he found work as an essayist for various journals and became the drama critic for The Spectator. The favorable reception of his first book, Landmarks in French Literature (1912), bolstered his commitment to writing. Virginia Woolf said: ""The figure of Lytton Strachey is so important a figure in the history of biography that it compels a pause. For his three famous books, Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth and Essex, are of a stature to show both what biography can do and what biography cannot do. . . . The anger and the interest that his short studies of Eminent Victorians aroused showed that he was able to make Manning, Florence Nightingale, Gordon, and the rest live as they had not lived since they were actually in the flesh. . . . In the lives of the two great Queens, Elizabeth and Victoria, he attempted a far more ambitious task. Biography had never had a fairer chance of showing what it could do. For it was now being put to the test by a writer who was capable of making use of all the liberties that biography had won."""

Samenvatting

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.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
26 februari 2009
Aantal pagina's
300
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Lytton Strachey
Tweede Auteur
Strachey
Hoofdredacteur
The Perfect Library
Tweede Redacteur
John Sutherland
Hoofduitgeverij
Oxford University Press

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler
Michael Holroyd

Overige kenmerken

Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
133 mm
Product hoogte
19 mm
Product lengte
210 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
128 mm
Verpakking hoogte
24 mm
Verpakking lengte
196 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
237 g

EAN

EAN
9780199555017
Nog geen reviews

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 7 euro en 49 cent. De meest getoonde prijs is 10 euro en 60 cent. Je bespaart 29%.
Je bespaart 29%
Uiterlijk 7 mei in huis
Verkoop door bol
  • Gratis verzending door bol vanaf 20 euro
  • Ophalen bij een bol afhaalpunt mogelijk
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
  • Dag en nacht klantenservice

Alle bindwijzen en edities (14)

  • 2,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 1,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 1,97
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 3,92
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 2,23
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 2,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 2,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 4,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 9,99
    Direct beschikbaar
  • 8,99
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip
  • 10,99
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip
  • 7,49
    Uiterlijk 7 mei in huis Tooltip
  • 15,20
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip
  • 28,99
    2 - 3 weken Tooltip

Lijst met gekozen artikelen om te vergelijken

Vergelijk artikelen