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Strachey, Lytton - (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the lengthy panegyrics of the 19th cent., he determined to write biographies that were swift

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Lytton Strachey » Read Now
by R. A. Scott-James. 39 pgs.

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...GENERAL EDITOR Bonamy Dobree GILES LYTTON STRACHEY was born in London on 1 March...Hungerford on 21 January 1932. LYTTON STRACHEY from a painting of 1914 by...reproduced by...
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English Literature in the Twentieth Century (Chap. XII "Lytton Strachey") » Read Now
by J. W. Cunliffe. 341 pgs.

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...X. GEORGIAN NOVELISTS 201 XI. ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND TRAVEL 259 XII. LYTTON STRACHEY 1880-1932 281 XIII. MASEFIELD AND THE NEW GEORGIAN POETS 292 INDEX 335 ENGLISH...
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One Mighty Torrent: The Drama of Biography ("Two Princes of the Church" begins on p. 45 and Chap. XVIII "Art and Irony") » Read Now
by Edgar Johnson. 595 pgs.

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...know a great deal about Mr Lytton Strachey, a brilliant writer only recently...lapidary style. We know that Mr Strachey, more than anyone else, has been...was striking. He...
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High and Low Moderns: Literature and Culture, 1889-1939 ("Surviving Victoria" begins on p. 23) » Read Now
by Maria DiBattista, Lucy McDiarmid. 264 pgs.

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This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high...
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This collection of essays on modernist culture reassesses the convergence of low and high cultures, of socialist and aesthete, late Victorian and young Georgian, the popular and the coterie. Academic literary studies have until recently preferred to treat the "opaque," "difficult" writings of high moderns Conrad, Yeats, Woolf, and Eliot, and the more accessible work of the low moderns Kipling, Shaw, and Wells in separate categories. In contributions by scholars David Bromwich, Roy Foster, Edna Longley, Louis Menand, Edward Mendelson, and others, High and Low Moderns brings these writers into critical proximity. Essays on such topics as the public mourning of Queen Victoria, Florence Farr and the "New Woman," the Edwardian Shaw, Lady Gregory's attraction to Irish felons, and the high artistic uses of low entertainments--cinema, detective fiction, and journalism-- introduce a subtler model of modernism, in which "demotic" and "elite" cultural forms criticize, imitate, and address one another.
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Contemporary English Literature ("Lytton Strachey" begins on p. 471) » Read Now
by Mark Longaker, Edwin C. Bolles. 528 pgs.

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...Doughty 460 Thomas Edward Lawrence 462 Henry Major Tomlinson 466 Lytton Strachey 470 Philip Guedalla 473 Edmund Gosse 475 George Saintsbury...
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Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction ("Queer Filiations" begins on p. 414) » Read Now
by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. 520 pgs.

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Through discussions of a diverse array of British, French, and American novels, this collection of essays explores queer worlds of taste, texture, joy, and ennui, focusing on such subjects as flogging, wizardry, exorcism, dance, Zionist desire, and Internet sexuality.
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Modernizing Lives: Experiments in English Biography, 1918-1939 (Chap. II "Revolt Against Victorianism") » Read Now
by Ruth Hoberman. 236 pgs.

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...Lockharts Sir Walter Scott and Lytton Stracheys Queen Victoria." But we may...Clifford, Puzzles 102 Lytton Strachey, Geoffrey Scott, David Cecil...Gosses Father and Son ...
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Encyclopedia of the Essay » Read Now
by Tracy Chevalier. 1004 pgs.

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The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.
Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor...
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The Encyclopedia of the Essay is the first reference work entirely devoted to the essay as a genre.
Coverage begins with Montaigne, the first essayist, and stretches forward to Addison and Steele, The Spectator and The Tatler, Marivaux, William Hazlitt, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Robert Musil, Theodor Adorno, Nouvelle Revue francaise, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, and across the ocean to Emerson and Thoreau, E.B. White, The New Yorker and Harper's, James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion -- while also looking back to classical and medieval precursors.
More than 400 writers from around the world are included, along with geographic surveys that provide an historical framework, entries on types of essays, and entries on important single essays. Entries on closely-related genres such as letters, journals, treatises, sermons and reviews expand and explore the fluid boundaries of the essay as genre.
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Cyclopedia of World Authors ("Lytton Strachey" begins on p. 1035) » Read Now
by Frank N. Magill, Dayton Kohler. 1204 pgs.

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...CYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD AUTHORS CYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD AUTHORS Original title : MASTERPLOTS CYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD AUTHORS Edited by FRANK N. MAGILL Associate...