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The essays collected here discuss Claire Messud’s works in sequence, thus validating the strong historical sense she nurtures through her realist fiction. They also show that the novels’ various narrative designs (such as autodiegetic retrospectivity) foster making historical connections. The book interprets Messud’s fiction in relationship to her non-fiction, and provides an interview with the author. Foci include post-World War II French Algerian emigrant identities, 1960s American Pop Art and September 11, 2001 communal trauma. Messud’s biography covers much geographical movement...

The essays collected here discuss Claire Messud's works in sequence, thus validating the strong historical sense she nurtures through her realist fiction. They also show that the novels' various narrative designs (such as autodiegetic retrospectivity) foster making historical connections. The book interprets Messud's fiction in relationship to her non-fiction, and provides an interview with the author. Foci include post-World War II French Algerian emigrant identities, 1960s American Pop Art and September 11, 2001 communal trauma. Messud's biography covers much geographical movement and she...

In the period between the Civil War and World War I, German universities provided North American women with opportunities in graduate and professional training that were not readily available to them at home. This training allowed women to compete to a greater degree with men in increasingly professionalized fields. In return for such opportunities, these women played a key role in opening up German universities to all women. Many devoted the rest of their lives to creating better research and graduate opportunities for other women, forever changing the course of higher education in North...