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In this book Eda Sagarra covers German society between 1820 and 1890 and the relationship of German writers and literary movements to their social background.

Eda Sagarra, MRIA (née O’Shiel; born 1933) is an Irish Germanist, historian, writer and retired academic. She was professor of German at Trinity College Dublin from 1975 to 1998; she was also pro-chancellor from 1999 to 2008 and remains emeritus professor of German on the faculty.

Sagarra was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1986 (she was its secretary from 1993 to 1998), and a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1998. She was awarded the Goethe Medal in 1990.