Professor Emeritus of German
Ph.D Princeton University
Areas of Interest
Age of Goethe, Kleist, 19th century Realism
Publications
Books
- Der Deutsche Nationalmythos. Ursprung eines politischen Programms. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, 1990.
- The Myth of a Nation: Literature and Politics in Prussia under Napoleon. Columbia, S.C.:Camden House, 1989.
Articles
- “Schiller und das bourgeois-liberale Programm der Französischen Revolution.” in: Verlorene Klassik? Ein Symposium, ed. Wolfgang Wittkowski. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986.
- “Jewish Exile from Berlin to Paris: The Geographical Dialectics of Joseph Roth.” in: Yearbook XXXI. Publications of the Leo Baeck Institute, 1986.