Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editor’s Introduction vii
4. Foreword xv
5. Part I: England at the Great Divide: 1830-1848
6. 1. The Battle for Reform 3
7. 2. The Battle for Minds and Secular Salvation: “Utopia” and “Utility” 13
8. 3. Thomas Carlyle: Out of the “Nay” into the “Everlasting Yea” 20
9. 4. Charles Dickens: The Novel in “The Battle of Life” 42
10. 5. John Stuart Mill: The Majesty of Reason 67
11. PART II. Russia: Dark Laughter and Siberia Nikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky
12. 1. The Dark Laughter of Nikolay Gogol 97
13. 2. Young Dostoevsky: The Road to Siberia 124
14. PART III. Europe: Revolution 1848-1849
15. 1. The Lightning of Ideas: Reason and Revolution 1835-1848 159
16. 2. Revolution: 1848-1849 210
17. 3. The Lyre and the Sword: Art and Revolution 256
18. Part IV : Swan Song and Elegy: Germany and the Poets
19. PART V: England: Crystal Palace and Bleak House
20. 1. The March of Empire and the Victorian Conscience 375
21. 2. The Novel and the Crisis of Conscience: The Brontës— The Caged Rebels of Haworth 390
22. PART VI. Woman of Valor: George Eliot and the Victorians
23. Notes 497
24. Bibliography 521
25. Index 537