A Half-Century of Greatness : : The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884 / / Frederic Ewen; ed. by Jeffrey Wollock, Aaron Kramer.
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 philo...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| MitwirkendeR: | |
| HerausgeberIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Editor’s Introduction
- Foreword
- 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”
- 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
- 2. Revolution: 1848-1849
- 3. The Lyre and the Sword: Art and Revolution
- Part IV : Swan Song and Elegy: Germany and the Poets
- 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
- Index