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Gertrude Himmelfarb

Gertrude Himmelfarb

GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, professor emeritus at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, has written extensively on intellectual and cultural history with a focus on Victorian England. Her most recent books are The Moral Imagination: From Edmund Burke to Lionel Trilling; The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments; and The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 she received the National Humanities Medal awarded by the President.


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