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Author Ewen, Frederic, 1899-1988.

Title A half-century of greatness : the creative imagination of Europe, 1848-1884 / Frederic Ewen ; edited by Jeffrey Wollock ; foreword by Aaron Kramer.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Stacks  CB204 .E938 2007    Available  ---
Description xviii, 571 pages ; 26 cm
Note Continues: Heroic imagination.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-535) and index.
Contents England at the Great Divide: 1830-1848 -- The Battle for Reform II -- The Battle for Minds and Secular Salvation "Utopia" -- "Utility" and "Happiness" -- Thomas Carlyle: Out of the "Nay" into the "Everlasting Yea" -- Charles Dickens: The Novel in "the Battle of Life" -- John Stuart Mill: The Majesty of Reason -- Russia: Dark Laughter and Siberia Nikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky -- The Dark Laughter of Nikolay Gogol -- Young Dostoevsky: The Road to Siberia -- Europe: Revolution 1848-1849 -- The Lighting of Ideas: Reason and Revolution 1835-1848 -- G. W. F. Hegel -- David Friedrich Strauss -- Ludwig Feuerbach -- Karl Marx -- Friedrich Engels -- Marx and Engels -- Revolution: 1848-1849 -- France -- Germany -- Austria -- Failure of Revolution -- The Lyre and the Sword: Art and Revolution -- Hungary - July 31, 1849: Sándor Petöfi - the Poet as Warrior -- Russia: Tsar and Serf - Taras Shevchenko -- Siegfried on the Barricades: Richard Wagner in Dresden, May 1849 -- Alexander Herzen and the Russian Self-Exiled -- Swan Song and elegy: Germany and the Poets -- Georg Buchner -- Georg Herwegh -- Ferdinand Freiligrath -- Georg Weerth and Adolf Glassbrenner -- Heinrich Heine -- England: Crystal Palace and Bleak House -- The March of Empire and the Victorian Conscience -- The Novel and the Crisis of Conscience: The Brontës --The Caged Rebels of Haworth -- Woman of Valor: George Eliot and the Victorians.
Subject Europe -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Europe.
Intellectual life.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Romanticism -- Europe.
Romanticism.
Europe -- History -- 1848-1849.
History.
Chronological Term 1848-1849
Subject European Revolutions (Europe : 1848-1849)
Revolutions -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.
Revolutions.
Europe -- History -- 1789-1900.
Chronological Term 1789-1900
Added Author Wollock, Jeffrey L.
Ewen, Frederic, 1899-1988. Heroic imagination.
ISBN 9780814722367 cloth alkaline paper
0814722369 cloth alkaline paper