Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-535) and index.
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England at the Great Divide: 1830-1848 -- The Battle for Reform II -- The Battle for Minds and Secular Salvation "Utopia" -- "Utility" and "Happiness" -- Thomas Carlyle: Out of the "Nay" into the "Everlasting Yea" -- Charles Dickens: The Novel in "the Battle of Life" -- John Stuart Mill: The Majesty of Reason -- Russia: Dark Laughter and Siberia Nikolay Gogol and Young Dostoevsky -- The Dark Laughter of Nikolay Gogol -- Young Dostoevsky: The Road to Siberia -- Europe: Revolution 1848-1849 -- The Lighting of Ideas: Reason and Revolution 1835-1848 -- G.W.F. Hegel -- David Friedrich Strauss -- Ludwig Feuerbach -- Karl Marx -- Friedrich Engels -- Marx and Engels -- Revolution: 1848-1849 -- France -- Germany -- Austria -- Failure of Revolution -- The Lyre and the Sword: Art and Revolution -- Hungary -- July 31, 1849: Sándor Petöfi -- the Poet as Warrior -- Russia: Tsar and Serf -- Taras Shevchenko -- Siegfried on the Barricades: Richard Wagner in Dresden, May 1849 -- Alexander Herzen and the Russian Self-Exiled -- Swan Song and elegy: Germany and the Poets -- Georg Buchner -- Georg Herwegh -- Ferdinand Freiligrath -- Georg Weerth and Adolf Glassbrenner -- Heinrich Heine -- England: Crystal Palace and Bleak House -- The March of Empire and the Victorian Conscience -- The Novel and the Crisis of Conscience: The Brontës --The Caged Rebels of Haworth -- Woman of Valor: George Eliot and the Victorians.