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A Half-Century of Greatness : the Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008. A Half-Century of Greatness paints a vivid and dramatic picture of the creative thought of mid- to late nineteenth century Europe and the influence of the unsuccessful revolutions of 1848. It reveals often unexpected links between novelists, poets, and phi...
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New York :
NYU Press,
2007.
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- Editor's Introduction; Foreword by Aaron Kramer; Part I : England at the Great Divide: 1830-1848; 1 The Battle for Reform; 2 The Battle for Minds and Secular Salvation: "Utopia" and "Utility"; 1. "Utopia"; 2. "Utility" and "Happiness"; 3 Thomas Carlyle: Out of the "Nay" into the "Everlasting Yea"; 4 Charles Dickens: The Novel in "The Battle of Life"; 5 John Stuart Mill: The Majesty of Reason; Part II : Russia: Dark Laughter and Siberia: Nikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky; 1 The Dark Laughter of Nikolay Gogol; 2 Young Dostoevsky: The Road to Siberia.
- Part III : Europe: Revolution 1848-18491 The Lightning of Ideas: Reason and Revolution 1835-1848; 1. G.W.F. Hegel; 2. David Friedrich Strauss; 3. Ludwig Feuerbach; 4. Karl Marx; 5. Friedrich Engels; 6. Marx and Engels; 2 Revolution: 1848-1849; 1. France; 2. Germany; 3. Austria; 4. Failure of the Revolutions; 3 The Lyre and the Sword: Art and Revolution; 1. Hungary--July 31, 1849: Sándor Petöfi--The Poet as Warrior; 2. Russia: Tsar and Serf--Taras Shevchenko; 3. Siegfried on the Barricades: Richard Wagner in Dresden, May 1849; 4. Alexander Herzen and the Russian Self-Exiled.
- Part IV : Swan Song and Elegy: Germany and the Poets1. Georg Büchner; 2. Georg Herwegh; 3. Ferdinand Freiligrath; 4. Georg Weerth and Adolf Glassbrenner; 5. Heinrich Heine; Part V : England: Crystal Palace and Bleak House; 1 The March of Empire and the Victorian Conscience; 2 The Novel and the Crisis of Conscience: The Brontës--The Caged Rebels of Haworth; Part VI : Woman of Valor: George Eliot and the Victorians; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Further Reading for Heroic Imagination and A Half-Century of Greatness; Index.