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

Table of contents

• A Half-Century of Greatness i
• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Editor's Introduction vii
• Foreword xv
• Part One - England at the Great Divide 1830–1848 1
• Chapter One - The Battle for Reform 3
• Chapter Two - The Battle for Minds and Secular Salvation “utopia” and “utility” 13
• Chapter Three - Thomas Carlyle Out of the “nay” into the “everlasting Yea” 20
• Chapter Four - Charles Dickens the Novel in “the Battle of Life” 42
• Chapter Five - John Stuart Mill the Majesty of Reason 67
• Part Two - Russia: Dark Laughter and Siberia Nikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky 95
• Chapter One - The Dark Laughter of Nikolay Gogol 97
• Chapter Two - Young Dostoevsky the Road to Siberia 124
• Part Three - Europe: Revolution 1848–1849 157
• Chapter One - The Lightning of Ideas Reason and Revolution 1835–1848 159
• Chapter Two - Revolution: 1848–1849 210
• Chapter Three - The Lyre and the Sword Art and Revolution 256
• Part Four - Swan Song and Elegy Germany and the Poets 327
• Part Five - England Crystal Palace and Bleak House 373
• Chapter One - The March of Empire and the Victorian Conscience 375
• Chapter Two - The Novel and the Crisis of Conscience the Brontës—the Caged Rebels Ofhaworth 390
• Part Six - Woman of Valor 441
• Notes 497
• Bibliography 521
• Index 537
• About the Author 571
• The Long-Lost Companion to Frederic Ewen's the Heroic Imagination, Available Now for the First Time 572

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