Herbert Zirker Author

The Author: Herbert Zirker became Professor of English Literature (now retired) at the University of Trier, Germany, in 1970. Areas of chief interest: Enlightenment Literature; History of Ideas approach to the transformations of literary genres, in particular the modes of fiction, on the way to modernism. Co-founder (1987) of the inderdisciplinary Canadian Studies Centre, he is grateful for the privilege of being a now ‘off-duty’ participant in its flourishing activities.