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Eminent Post-Victorians: Portraits of Genius

Eminent Post-Victorians: Portraits of Genius

Berman, Morris

Paperback

General World History

ISBN13: 9798430871062
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 11 2022
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In 1918 Lytton Strachey published Eminent Victorians, which was a take-down of popular Victorian heroes. In reality, he argued, these paragons of virtue had feet of clay, a dark side that had been conveniently overlooked. The book was an enormous hit, for in speaking to his generation, he was preaching to the converted: even beyond the influential Bloomsbury Circle, of which he was a leading light, there was a widespread revulsion against the hypocrisy, the stilted formalism, and the emotional repression of the Victorian era.

In the following study, Morris Berman aims to do the reverse, i.e., discuss the greatness of a number of those Englishmen and women who lived and worked in the first half of the twentieth century: their dedication, integrity, sincerity, and above all, their sheer brilliance. Much has been made of the galaxy of talent that made up the Italian Renaissance, or the French Enlightenment. Perhaps less has been said about the English galaxy of the post-Victorian era, whose legacy was to contribute significantly to making the modern age even more modern; more daring and experimental, one might say. There were giants in the earth in those days, is how Berman feels about these folks. It could reasonably be argued that we live today in the world they created.

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