Wilhelm Raabe's Der Hungerpastor and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield : Intertextuality of Two Bildungsromane (North American Studies in Nineteenth-century German Literature and Culture)

Going beyond previous research showing the parallels between the two novels, offers reasons why Raabe borrowed many elements for his 1864-65 work from Dicken's best-seller of 1849-50. Compares their heroes, their Jewish antagonists, and a number of female characters to demonstrate the extent of the indebtedness and its range from direct verbal echoes to reworking generally similar ideas. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.