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Wilhelm Raabe’s "Der Hungerpastor" and Charles Dickens’s "David Copperfield"
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440 g
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236x159x17 mm
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The Author: Peter O. Arnds was born in Hannover, Germany, in 1963. He completed his Magister Artium with a thesis on James Joyce at the Ludwig Maxmilian Universität in Munich. He received a Ph.D. in German Studies from the University of Toronto in 1995, and is now an assistant professor of German at Kansas State University.
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.