Georg Brandes: The Historical Movement in Modern Literature (1896)
Channel: Craig Campbell
Date: 2013-08-01

This reading is taken from The Library of the World's Best Literature, Vol 5, edited by Charles Dudley Warner (1896). It's a translation of Georg Brandes work, From the Introduction to 'Main Currents in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century'. 

Georg Brandes was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1842 and died there in 1927. He wrote a six volume literary criticism of such writers as Chateaubriand, Rousseau and Goethe. The work is a good read and it's available for free.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Main+Currents+in+Nineteenth+Century+Literature

He was writing in 1870 about the Revolutions of 1830 and 1848, which were both due to The French Revolution 1789-1815. 

A link to the book is below.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13520/13520-h/13520-h.htm#BRANDES