Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes - International Perspectives

Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes - International Perspectives

by Florian Krobb
Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes - International Perspectives

Wilhelm Raabe: Global Themes - International Perspectives

by Florian Krobb

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Overview

"Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910) is one of the major figures of 19th-century German Realist writing, acknowledged as an innovator both stylistically and thematically. But until now there has been little concentration on the international and postcolonial dimensions of Raabe's work - his literary critique of colonialism, his engagement with modernization and globalization, his involvement in 19th century German discourses about America, Africa and Asia, and the links between international and national issues in his writing. In Raabe International, contributions from many eminent critics address Raabe both as a writer on world affairs and as a subject himself for translation and comment outside of Germany."

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351194570
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/02/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 196
File size: 730 KB

About the Author

Florian Krobb

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

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