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To Tidsaldre (Two Ages, 1845, in some translations Two Generations) is a novel by Danish writer Thomasine Christine Gyllembourg-Ehrensvärd. It was analyzed by Kierkegaard in Two Ages: A Literary Review.

The cultural-historical message of To Tidsaldre maintains that conduct considered immoral according to 1840s’ ethics – revolutionary disposition, impassioned abandonment to love, adultery – is not nearly as reprehensible as the righteous prudishness of the day. The distinction lies in the degree of intensity – the fervent individuals of the age of revolution lived their lives to the full, whereas her contemporary social associations were governed by convention and coquetry. Nobility of soul has turned into surface appearance, and civic virtues have transformed into dull philistinism with the individual rendered anonymous due to consideration for what ‘one’ approved of. The trends identified by Thomasine Gyllembourg in the 1840s thus anticipate the particular modern way of life that would be put to debate some decades later in the literature of the Modern Breakthrough. [1]

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Claudine, Lusard



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