Abstract
The essay studies the influence of Goethe’s Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre on Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop. The relation of Nell and her grandfather, of the latter and his brother, and Nell’s comic counterpoint, the Marchioness, are all inspired by Goethe’s novel. Yet Dickens’s de-aristocratization, desexualization, and re-Christianization represent crucial differences from the German model.
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