Biographical Portrayals in Strachey’s Eminent Victorians and Keynes’s B

Biographical Portrayals in Stracheys Eminent nices and Keyness Biography of Isaac Newton The Bloomsbury notion of animation moved against what was the predominant norms of biography at the time. Iconoclastic in whole their efforts, the Bloomsbury writers did an interesting thing regarding biography. In both Lytton Stracheys portrayal of Florence nightingale from Eminent Victorians and Maynard Keyness brief portrait of Isaac Newton, they strive to reinsert the iconoclastic into figures that train become so mainstream as to be banal in their eyes. there is an ironic derision of the stereotypes both figures have become alongside an long amount of respect for the non-stereotypical aspects of their character that made these figures as great as they were. Stracheys Eminent Victorians could be summarized as an attempt to demonstrate the shipway in which the key figures of the Victorian era were not as Victorian as one might assume. Florence Nightingale, in particular, cou ld not be seen, through and through Stracheys eyes at least, as simply the Lady with the Lamp pursuance ...