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Contents ❖ Introduction ritchie robertson and michael white 1 part I: Fontane and GenetIc StudIeS 1 Wenn texte wandern: Von tietz zu Fontane regina dieterle 7 2 ‘eine gemalte Landschaft’? Landscapes in theodor Fontane’s novel Quitt (1890) james n. bade 23 3 die Krautentochter: plädoyer für eine rangerhöhung gotthard erler 49 part II: tranSLatIon StudIeS 4 ‘all the fruits of fancy’: the British reception of Hermann von pückler-Muskau’s Tutti Frutti (1834) peter james bowman 65 5 Schiller’s ‘Glocke’ — Mangan’s Bell: Mediating German culture in Ireland, 1835–1846 andrew cusack 78 6 Searching for the ultimate German austen: recent translations of Pride and Prejudice norbert bachleitner 90 7 Herder and Fontane as translators of percy’s Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: the Ballad ‘edward, edward’ michael white 107 part III: GerMany and tHe BrItISH ISLeS 8 nietzsche and the Scottish enlightenment ritchie robertson 120 9 Between yesterday and tomorrow: London in the eyes of richard Friedenthal (1896–1979) rüdiger görner 134 10 the Franco-prussian War: War reporting in the Irish print Media, 1870–1873 eda sagarra 145 viii Contents part IV: GerMany and europe 11 Bertha von Suttner’s Die Waffen nieder!: the roots and reception of a pacifist Manifesto barbara burns 158 12 ‘Ich hätte so geschrieben’: Fontane’s reception of Zola patricia howe 170 13 nineteenth-century Literary networks and the ‘unheroic’ Man of Letters: Victor aimé Huber and Friends carol tully 182 Index 195 This book is dedicated to Helen Chambers, Professor of German at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2009, in gratitude for her work as teacher and colleague, and in honour of her outstanding contribution to scholarship in nineteenth-century German literature.