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

by Frederic Ewen, Jeffrey Wollock, Aaron Kramer

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 Bront s, and George Eliot;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814722369
• ISBN13: 9780814722367
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 570 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 10.1"