David Jackson is Lecturer at the University of Cardiff

'Jackson's honest, erudite, and enthusiastic book is not only a masterly study of a major 19th century German author, it is at the same time a reflection on the intellectual state of a particular brand of left liberalism in 19th century Germany.' German History

• Traditions and legends; the old times; the road to revolution; Prussia; Prussianization; a democrat in the second empire; catering for the Wilhelminian public: criticism and conformity; literature at the crossroads.

David Jackson is Lecturer at the University of Cardiff

'Jackson's honest, erudite, and enthusiastic book is not only a masterly study of a major 19th century German author, it is at the same time a reflection on the intellectual state of a particular brand of left liberalism in 19th century Germany.' German History

• Traditions and legends; the old times; the road to revolution; Prussia; Prussianization; a democrat in the second empire; catering for the Wilhelminian public: criticism and conformity; literature at the crossroads.

David Jackson is Lecturer at the University of Cardiff

'Jackson's honest, erudite, and enthusiastic book is not only a masterly study of a major 19th century German author, it is at the same time a reflection on the intellectual state of a particular brand of left liberalism in 19th century Germany.' German History

• Traditions and legends; the old times; the road to revolution; Prussia; Prussianization; a democrat in the second empire; catering for the Wilhelminian public: criticism and conformity; literature at the crossroads.