| «Eine Untergeordnete Meisterschaft?»: The Critical Reception of Dickens in Germany 1837-1870 Contributor(s): Jean McInnes (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631428847 ISBN-13: 9783631428849 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - German - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| LCCN: 90022919 |
| Series: Studien Zur Deutschen Literatur Des 19. Und 20. Jahrhunderts |
| Physical Information: 195 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study represents an attempt to assess the critical impact of Dickens' work in Germany from the appearance of "The Pickwick Papers" till his death in 1870. Its main aim is to place the ongoing engagement of German critics with the English novelist in the context of the social and literary-critical tensions of the time and to bring about a new, more differentiated and penetrating understanding of his influence in these decades. The author argues that all the significant attempts to define the function and possibilities of the contemporary novel in German in this period were linked in one way or another with critical attitudes to the hugely popular, but always intractably controversial work of the English novelist. |