Heroic imagination : the creative genius of Europe from Waterloo (1815) to the Revolution of 1848 /
Heroic Imagination describes the historical period and the wide manifestation of creativity that took place between 1815 and 1848 in Europe, from Napoleon's downfall in the battle of Waterloo in 1815 to the "Restoration" that sought to bring back the old order preceding the French Rev...
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| Language: | English |
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Secaucus, N.J. :
Citadel Press,
[1984], ©1984
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Table of Contents:
- Waterloo and After
- The Anguish of Transition and Waterloo
- England: "The Sceptered Isle" and "The Dark Satanic Mills"
- France: The Furnace of World History
- Germany: The Dissevered Self
- "Skeleton of a Titanic Form": The Italy of Giacomo Leopardi and Allessandro Manzoni
- The Agony of Spain and Francisco Goya
- Russia: "The First Revolution" and Alexander Pushkin
- The Rising Tide: 1830-1848
- France
- 1830: Paris on the Barricades
- 1830 and the Artist
- France: 1831-1848
- Paris: Magnet and Haven
- End of an Epoch: Goethe, Weimar and the Transfiguration of Faust