1852 · Skopia

Showing 28 works across all media from 1852

Essay · Historical literature · Political literature

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852

★ 7.1

Fiction

Collected Tales

Nikolai Gogol

1852 · 464 pages

A civil servant wakes to find his nose gone and walking Petersburg in a senior official's uniform. Elsewhere a clerk saves for an overcoat, and Gogol's comedy tips steadily into nightmare.

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

It is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

Frederick Douglass

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? · 1852

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham.

Frederick Douglass

1852

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe. Though he does not represent the present state, he represents the future state. If he does not represent what we are, he represents what we ought to be.

Frederick Douglass

1852

★ 7.0

Fiction · African American

Eliza crosses the frozen Ohio on breaking ice with her child. Stowe sold three hundred thousand copies within twelve months and made slavery intolerable to Northerners who had lived comfortably beside it.

★ 6.7

Fiction · Realism

Sketches from a Hunter's Album

Ivan Turgenev

1852 · 403 pages

Turgenev sends a hunter across the provinces with a gun and a dog, and the serfs he meets emerge as individuals. The book did for serfdom what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for slavery.

★ 6.6

Essay · Historical literature · Political literature

Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Karl Marx

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte · 1852

★ 6.3

Poem

So, loath to suffer mute, We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear.

Matthew Arnold

Empedocles on Etna · 1852

★ 5.3

Poem