The Shifting Fortunes of Wilhelm Raabe

by Jeffrey L. Sammons and Professor Emeritus Jeffrey L Sammons

Chronicles the most important scholarly criticism of the 19th-century German writer Wilhelm Raabe, from his day to the present.

Wilhem Raabe (1831-1910), the most gifted German novelist between Goethe and Fontane, was a kind of German Victorian writer, a counterpart to Dickens and Thackeray, by whom he was profoundly influenced. The reassessment and upgrading of his literary achievement has been one of the liveliest topics of German literary scholarship - much influenced by British and American contributions - of the last thirty years. This process has involved a rescue from a cult of idolatry that grew up around his death and evolved into a Nazi allegiance that for a time sank his reputation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879751089
• ISBN13: 9781879751088
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 6.0"