Gerald N. Izenberg is professor of history at Washington University. He is the author of The Existentialist Critique of Freud: The Crisis of Autonomy and Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Origins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802.

"The skill, sympathy, and percipience with which Izenberg analyzes the lives and contexts of his subjects are simply outstanding." - Chandak Sengoopta, American Historical Review "This consistently perceptive and thoughtful book both deepens and recasts our understanding of the pre-World War I crisis of masculinity, while simultaneously showing how powerfully that crisis affected the lives and work of three exemplary modernists. Izenberg makes a significant contribution to both cultural history and the history of gender relations." - Jerrold Seigel, author of Bohemian Paris and The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp