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A Half-Century Of Greatness: The Creative Imagination Of Europe, 1848-1884 - Frederic Ewen
NYU Press (2007)
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Revolutions - History, Romanticism

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, 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. 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 (1999) Löwy & Sayre\'s Romanticism against the Tide of Modernity (2001) or E.P. Thompson\'s The Romantics (1997), will find the Ewen volumes a welcome addition.

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LoC Classification CB204 .E938 2007
Dewey 940.28
Format Hardcover
Cover Price 50,00 €
No. of Pages 600
Height x Width 260 mm
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