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Out of Victorianism: Samuel Butler, Lytton Strachey, Ford Madox Ford
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Victorianism into the modern knows few texts more relevant than Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh (1873-84, published 1903), Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918), and Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (1915). Butler’s hail and farewell to Victorian values functions also as a work of Pensées. Strachey uses carefully tempered ironic stealth to rewrite the biographies of the age’s Great Names. For Ford modernism beckons, his novel of Victorianism’s respectability caught short in its double standards and matched in the teller’s own indeterminacy of viewpoint.
Title: Out of Victorianism: Samuel Butler, Lytton Strachey, Ford Madox Ford
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Victorianism into the modern knows few texts more relevant than Samuel Butler’s The Way of All Flesh (1873-84, published 1903), Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians (1918), and Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier (1915).
Butler’s hail and farewell to Victorian values functions also as a work of Pensées.
Strachey uses carefully tempered ironic stealth to rewrite the biographies of the age’s Great Names.
For Ford modernism beckons, his novel of Victorianism’s respectability caught short in its double standards and matched in the teller’s own indeterminacy of viewpoint.
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