Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield : intertextuality of two Bildungsromane
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Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield : intertextuality of two Bildungsromane
(North American studies in nineteenth-century German literature, v. 20)
Peter Lang, c1997
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Bibliography: p. [169]-183
Includes index
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Der Hungerpastor (1864-65) is Wilhelm Raabe's most popular novel. This monograph shows how Raabe borrowed much of the plot and characters from Charles Dickens's best-selling David Copperfield (1849-50). By providing the reasons why Raabe borrowed from Dickens, this study goes far beyond the existing research on the parallels between these two Bildungsromane. A comparison of the heroes, their Jewish antagonists and a number of female characters demonstrates the extent of Raabe's indebtedness to Dickens. The intertextuality ranges from direct verbal echoes to a mere use of Dickens's ideas upon which Raabe builds a novel distinctly his own.
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