Description: In this pathbreaking work, Dagmar Herzog situates the birth of German liberalism in the religious conflicts of the nineteenth century
Brief description:
Dagmar Herzog is professor of history and Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She teaches courses on European history, the history of the Holocaust, and the histories of religion and sexuality. She is also the author of Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany (2005), and the editor of Sexuality and German Fascism (2004) and Lessons and Legacies VII: The Holocaust in International Perspective (2006), as well as co-editor of Sexuality in Austria, a special issue of Contemporary Austrian Studies (Transaction 2007).
Review Quotes: Dagmar Herzog has written a fascinating first book that provides an excellent example of successful use by a historian of methods of textual analysis developed by literary scholars.