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What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share a culture. Instead, Europe is a question to be answered by the teachers and students who study it. A collaborative and multidisciplinary collection, Engaging Europe explores Europe through history, literature, philosophy, music, and ethical narratives. A set of imaginative contributors investigates European identity through a variety of cases, including Greece and Rome, the Bible, the...

Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish army officer, spent 12 years from 1894 to 1906, in solitary confinement for a crime he did not commit. Amidst the dramatic and shifting revelations of what would come to be known throughout the world as the Dreyfus Affair, four influential authors re-assessed their moral convictions on the civic questions posed by this abuse. Here, Gould explores the Dreyfur Affair as well as secularism and tolerance in the work of Emile Zola, Maurice Barres, Bernard Lazare, and Marcel Proust.