{"product_id":"eminent-victorians-paperback-1","title":"Eminent Victorians: Four Brilliant Biographical Portraits of Victorian Power, Reform, Education, and Empire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLytton Strachey\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEminent Victorians\u003c\/em\u003e is Lytton Strachey's brilliant, irreverent dismantling of four heroic Victorian reputations: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.\u003c\/strong\u003e First published in 1918, the book helped change the art of biography by rejecting solemn admiration in favour of compression, irony, psychological insight, and sharp literary judgement. Strachey did not write dutiful memorials. He wrote portraits designed to expose ambition, self-deception, moral certainty, religious authority, imperial myth, and the public machinery by which reputations are made.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four lives at the centre of the book give Strachey a way to examine Victorian England itself: Manning and ecclesiastical power; Nightingale and reforming discipline; Arnold and moral education; Gordon and imperial martyrdom. The result is not merely a set of biographies, but a modern classic of literary nonfiction, Victorian cultural criticism, and historical portraiture. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEminent Victorians\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e remains essential for readers of biography, British history, Bloomsbury writing, Victorian studies, literary essays, and the long argument over whether public greatness can survive close inspection. Britannica notes that Strachey's portraits of Manning, Nightingale, Arnold, and Gordon \"revolutionized English biography,\" replacing awestruck distance with critical scrutiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 25, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48113436197112,"sku":"9781604597479","price":30.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/g6S8LG2HRe9781604597479.webp?v=1783296002","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/eminent-victorians-paperback-1","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}