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Article: Poe as comparatist: Hawthorne and "the German Tieck" (once more).
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- ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Well-known in histories of American Romanticism is Edgar Allan Poe's 1847 charge that Hawthorne is unoriginal because of an extremely close resemblance of his tales to Ludwig Tieck's (1773-1853), "whose manner, in some of his works, is absolutely identical with that habitual in Hawthorne" (577). This charge has received critical attention since Anton Schonbach in 1884 and Henry M. Belden in 1901 and at this point seems to produce an article, anthologized essay, or part of a chapter roughly once a decade; yet by the time of Thomas S. Hansen's 1995 book on German references in Poe, readers are left up in the air about how to take this celebrated accusation. (1) ...
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