Table of Contents

Editorial Note ix

Notes on the Contributors x

Introduction 1

1 Watching the World Shrink and Grow: Globalism in the Works of Wilhelm Raabe Florian Krobb 13

2 Raabe, Westermaim, and the International Imagination Brian Tucker 25

3 'Pionier im alten abgebrauchten Europa': Modernization and Colonialism in Raabe's Prinzessin Fisch Dirk Göttsche 38

4 First Contact and Déjà Vu: The Return of Agostin Agonista in Raabe's Zum wilden Mann Axel Dunker 52

5 Colonialism and the Language of German-German Relations in Raabe's Stopfkuchen Katra Byram 61

6 Raabe and Dutch Colonialism John Pizer 74

7 Representing America Sight Unseen: Comparative Observations on Spielhagen, Raabe, and Fontane Jeffrey L. Sammons 87

8 Narrative Evasion of Socio-political Crisis: Raabe's Die Leute aus dem Walde and Sealsfield's Das Kajütenbuch oder Nationale Charakteristiken Alexander Ritter 100

9 Nation and Gender in Wilhelm Raabe's Pre-Unification Historical Narratives Irene S. Di Maio 114

10 Resonant Violence in Die Innerste and the Rupture of the German Idyll after 1871 Lynne Tatlock 126

11 Moonstone and 'Mondgebirge': Exile and Identity in Wilhelm Raabe and Wilkie Collins Ernest Schonfield 138

12 Raabe's 'English Prophet': Sofie Delffs and the English Translation of Abu Telfan Alison E. Martin 149

13 Wilhelm Raabe and Translation Michael Ritterson 159

Appendix: English Translations of Wilhelm Raabe 169

Works Cited 170

Index of Raabe's Works 175

Index of Names 176