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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910814544503321
• Autore: Ewen Frederic <1899-1988.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 0-8147-2280-6; 0-8147-2245-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (589 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): WollockJeffrey L; EwenFrederic <1899-1988.>
• Disciplina: 940.2/8
• Soggetti: Romanticism - Europe; Revolutions - Europe - History - 19th century; Europe Intellectual life 19th century; Europe History 1848-1849; Europe History 1789-1900
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Continues: Heroic imagination.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 521-535) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; 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 1848-1849; 1 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 Poets; 1. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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