Herwig FriedlHerwig Friedl is Professor Emeritus of American Literature and History of Ideas at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied American and German Literatures and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and at Cornell Universty; he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale in 1973/4, a Visiting Professor at the University of New Mexico in 1984 and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard in 2002, 2006, and 2007. His book publications include a study of Henry James' aesthetic theory (1972) and, as editor, essay collections on E.L. Doctorow (1986), on Women Studies as Cultural Studies (2000), and on gender and conceptions of space (2006). His numerous essays focus on Transcendentalism, Pragmatism, Modernism, and on American thinking in an international context. Read More Read Less