The Romantic Exiles: A Nineteenth-Century Portrait Gallery

by Edward Hallett Carr

Book Overview

First published in 1933, The Romantic Exilesis a unique and spirited biography of Alexander Herzen (18121868), a self-exiled Russian aristocrat who was the leader of a small group of revolutionary-minded expatriates. Their story is the record of the inevitable and disastrous linkage of political and emotional liberalism in the two decades following the Romantic rebellion of the 1830's; and it is the story of the destruction of their ideals and achievements...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262530406
• ISBN13: 9780262530408
• Release Date: February 1981
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.