Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 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 Brontes, and George Eliot; Hegel,
Strauss, Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, Wagner, and several German poets;
the Hungarian poet Sandor Petoefi; 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. The book was reconstructed and edited by Dr. Jeffrey
Wollock from Ewen's final manuscript. It includes the author's own
reference citations throughout, a reconstructed bibliography, and
an updated "further reading" list. 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 or E.P. Thompson's The Romantics (1997), will
find Ewen's work a welcome addition.
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