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Wilhelm Raabe
(1831-1910)
German novelist
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National and cultural identity
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Legenda: Oxford, 2009
£45.00 ($89.50 US)  Hardback  190pp
ISBN: 978-1-906540-01-2

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.

With the contributions:

Florian Krobb, Dirk Göttsche — Introduction
Florian Krobb — Watching the World Shrink and Grow: Globalism in the Works of Wilhelm Raabe
Brian Tucker — Raabe, Westermann, and the International Imagination
Dirk Göttsche — ‘Pionier im alten abgebrauchten Europa’: Modernization and Colonialism in Raabe’s Prinzessin Fisch
Axel Dunker — First Contact and Déjà Vu: The Return of Agostin Agonista in Raabe’s Zum wilden Mann
Katra Byram — Colonialism and the Language of German–German Relations in Raabe’s Stopfkuchen
John Pizer — Raabe and Dutch Colonialism
Jeffrey L. Sammons — Representing America Sight Unseen: Comparative Observations on Spielhagen, Raabe, and Fontane
Alexander Ritter — Narrative Evasion of Socio-political Crisis: Raabe’s Die Leute aus dem Walde and Sealsfield’s Das Kajütenbuch oder Nationale Charakteristiken
Irene S. Di Maio — Nation and Gender in Wilhelm Raabe’s Pre-Unification Historical Narratives
Lynne Tatlock — Resonant Violence in Die Innerste and the Rupture of the German Idyll after 1871
Ernest Schonfield — Moonstone and ‘Mondgebirge’: Exile and Identity in Wilhelm Raabe and Wilkie Collins
Alison E. Martin — Raabe’s ‘English Prophet’: Sofie Delffs and the English Translation of Abu Telfan
Michael Ritterson — Wilhelm Raabe and Translation