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Presents a panorama of the social, political, and artistic aspects of European Romanticism

Table of Contents

Editor's Introduction Foreword by Aaron KramerPart I: England at the Great Divide:1830-1848 1 The Battle for Reform2 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 SiberiaNikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky1 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 Part VI: Woman of Valor: George Eliot and the Victorians Notes Bibliography Primary SourcesSecondary SourcesFurther Reading for Heroic Imagination and A Half-Century of Greatness Index

About the Author

Frederic Ewen (1899-1988) was Professor of English Literature at Brooklyn College from 1930 until 1952, when he resigned rather than be fired for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. He went on to be a successful author and lecturer. Jeffrey Wollock, an intellectual historian, is Research Director at the Solidarity Foundation in New York.