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Gerstäcker in America, 1837–1843

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

George H. R. O'Donnell
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Seldom do readers of Gerstäcker's Germelshausen, Irrfahrten, Wild-Dieb, etc., know how this author first appealed to, and won, his worldwide clientèle of the last eighty-odd years. I hope soon to present a truly adequate account of his life, letters and works; here I will but most briefly sketch his early life, depict his picturesque attempts to become a real American citizen, and indicate finally the truly dominant influence of this, his first American sojourn, over all his later career.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 1927 , pp. 1036 - 1043
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1927

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References

1 Possibly inexact for “Kaufmann”; young Gerstäcker's position here made him feel bitterly a degradation, a hopeless inferiority to his erstwhile companions and friends.

2 Tagebuch, II, 64.

3 Tagebuch, II, für den 10. Februar, 1838.

4 lbid.

5 Tagebuch, III, 1.

6 S. u. J. (1844), II, 142.

7 S. u. J. (Costenoble, 1901), 439.

8 HS, in der Darmstaetter-Sammlung, Berliner Staatsbibliothek, von Gerstäcker unterzeichnet und datiert: “Plagwitz bei Leipzig, d. 4ten Septbr. 1852.”

9 Gortenlaube, 1869; 47; 754.