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Article: At the Grave of the Gentile Constitution: Walter Scott, Georg Lukacs and Romanticism.("From Romanticism to Bolshevism")(Critical essay)
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- Studies in Romanticism
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- September 22, 2005
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IN HIS BOOK, GEORG LUKACS: FROM ROMANTICISM TO BOLSHEVISM, (1) MICHAEL Lowy charts Lukacs development from the anti-capitalist Romanticism of The Theory of the Novel, through his conversion to Bolshevism in 1917, to his Hegelian reconciliation with Stalinist reality in the course of the 1920s. This paper, however, challenges the view that Lukacs ever completely left behind his "Romanticism" and suggests that in the case of Walter Scott Lukacs may have even "out-romanticized" his subject. This is especially evident in his comments on Waverley in The Historical Novel, in which he appears to idealize the Scottish clans to an extent that Scott does not. Scott's depiction of ...
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