Traci S. O’Brien is Assistant Professor of German at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and holds academic degrees from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published articles on women’s writing, foreign language pedagogy, and German and Austrian literature.

• Contents: Enlightenment concept of the individual – Views of democracy and progress – Travel to the «Orient» – Women’s rights – Emancipation of Jews in Germany – African slavery in the United States – The «vanishing» Native American.

Traci S. O’Brien is Assistant Professor of German at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and holds academic degrees from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published articles on women’s writing, foreign language pedagogy, and German and Austrian literature.

• Contents: Enlightenment concept of the individual – Views of democracy and progress – Travel to the «Orient» – Women’s rights – Emancipation of Jews in Germany – African slavery in the United States – The «vanishing» Native American.

Traci S. O’Brien is Assistant Professor of German at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, and holds academic degrees from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has published articles on women’s writing, foreign language pedagogy, and German and Austrian literature.

• Contents: Enlightenment concept of the individual – Views of democracy and progress – Travel to the «Orient» – Women’s rights – Emancipation of Jews in Germany – African slavery in the United States – The «vanishing» Native American.