Wilhelm Raabe, German Moonlight / Höxter and Corvey / At the Sign of the Wild Man

Alison E. Martin; Erich Lehmann; and Michael Ritterson

Wilhelm Raabe, German Moonlight / Höxter and Corvey / At the Sign of the Wild Man

Translated by Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson

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Wilhelm Raabe (1831-1910), German novelist

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Jewish Studies

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New Translations 3

Modern Humanities Research Association

1 April 2012 • 218pp

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This volume assembles English translations of three of Wilhelm Raabe’s most intriguing narratives. Raabe (1831–1910) was one of the most complex and multilayered German writers of the second half of the nineteenth century. The three pieces published here for the first time in English are: German Moonlight, a tongue-in-cheek study of lunacy and split personality as a quintessentially German condition; Höxter and Corvey, an unsettling reconstruction of civil unrest and anti-Jewish violence in the seventeenth century which advocates tolerance and sobriety in troubled times; and At the Sign of The Wild Man, an inverted genre piece in which a rural idyll is devastated by an agent of global capitalism.

All three narratives, written during the first half of the 1870s, contain stinging criticism of the mentality of complacency so prevalent in the newly-founded German Empire; but they also offer moving stories of personal crisis, quiet heroism and noble resignation.

Alison E. Martin is Assistant Professor of German at the Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Erich Lehmann (1917–2009) was Professor of Statistics at University of California, Berkeley. Michael Ritterson is Professor of German Emeritus at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. Florian Krobb is Professor of German at National University of Ireland Maynooth.

Reviews:

‘A major accomplishment. Raabe’s is a voice which deserves to be heard, and an oeuvre which deserves to be appreciated across linguistic boundaries. These translations allow the reader with no knowledge of German and little appreciation of the context of the originals to hear an authentic version of that voice, to understand something of the world it can open up, and so to appreciate the writer’s achievement. They merit an enthusiastic response.’ — William Webster, Translation and Literature 24, 2015, 121

Contents:

i-iv	Front Matter Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.1	Cite
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v-vi	Table of Contents Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.2	Cite
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vii-xxxii	Introduction Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.3	Cite
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3-18	German Moonlight Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.4	Cite
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21-88	Höxter and Corvey Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.5	Cite
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91-158	At the Sign of The Wild Man Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.6	Cite
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159-176	Explanatory Notes Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.7	Cite
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177-180	Notes on Translators and Translations Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.8	Cite
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181-184	Further Reading Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.9	Cite
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185-186	Back Matter Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson doi:10.2307/j.ctt24hztg.10	Cite
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Martin, Alison E., Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson (trans.), Wilhelm Raabe, German Moonlight / Höxter and Corvey / At the Sign of the Wild Man, New Translations, 3 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2012)

First footnote reference: ³⁵ Wilhelm Raabe, German Moonlight / Höxter and Corvey / At the Sign of the Wild Man, trans. by Alison E. Martin, Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson, New Translations, 3 (Cambridge: MHRA, 2012), p. 21.

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Martin, Alison E., Erich Lehmann, and Michael Ritterson (trans.). 2012. Wilhelm Raabe, German Moonlight / Höxter and Corvey / At the Sign of the Wild Man, New Translations, 3 (Cambridge: MHRA)

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