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Part of the book: The Ethics of Narration

Colin Riordan

MHRA Texts and Dissertations 28

Bithell Series of Dissertations 14

Modern Humanities Research Association for the Institute of Germanic Studies

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Abstract.  Although Ingrid Babendererde, we now know, was the first novel Johnson wrote, it will suit the present purpose initially to consider Johnson's early works in the context of their critical reception, in order to explain the origins of certain misconceptions which have dogged readings of Johnson's work ever since. Mutmaßungen über Jakob enjoyed a critical if not commercial success. Yet it would be neither inaccurate nor ungracious to assign it to that category of twentieth-century novel which cannot be read, only re-read.

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