A Half-Century of Greatness: The Creative Imagination of Europe, 1848-1884.

Lediglich der Schutzumschlag weist sehr leichte Gebrauchsspuren auf, sonst sehr sauber und ohne Anstreichungen / only the dust jacket shows very slight signs of usage, otherwise very clean and without markings. - 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; Sandor Petofi�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 i v: Swan Song and Elegy: Germany and the Poets 1. Georg Buchner 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 Brontes� The Caged Rebels of Haworth part v 1: 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. ISBN 9780814722367