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

Continues: Heroic imagination.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-535) and index.

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.

Print version record.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008A 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 philosophers from England, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine-especially Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, the Brontës, and George Eliot; Hegel, Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, Wagner, and several German poets; the Hungarian poet Sándor Petöfi; Gogol, Dostoevsky, Bakunin, and Herzen in Russia, and the great Ukrainian poet Shevchenko. Ewen goes on to trace the transition from Romanticism to Victorianism, or what he calls "the Victorian compromise"-the ascendancy of the middle class.The book was reconstructed and edited by Dr. Jeffrey Wollock from Ewen's final manuscript. It includes the author's own reference citations throughout, a reconstructed bibliography, and an updated "further reading" list.This is Ewen's last work, the long-lost companion to his Heroic Imagination. Together, these books present a panorama of the social, political, and artistic aspects of European Romanticism, especially foreshadowing and complementing recent work on the relation of Marxism to romanticism. Anyone interested in what Lukacs called "Romantic anticapitalism,"; who appreciates such books as Marshall Berman's Adventures in Marxism or E.P. Thompson's The Romantics (1997), will find Ewen's work a welcome addition.

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