Heinrich Heine's Contested Identities: Politics, Religion, and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Germany

by Jost Hermand

This volume collects the papers presented at a conference that took place in Berkeley, California, in October 1997 in honor of Heinrich Heine's two-hundredth birthday. The theme of that conference was Heine's identity, which was formed and reformed, revised and modified, in relationship to the politics, religion, and nationalism of his era. Several speakers focused on Heine's Jewish identity and most contributions touched on his relationship to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820441058
• ISBN13: 9780820441054
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 199 Pages