In 1898 Wilhelm Raabe proclaimed his historical narrative Hastenbeck to be the companion piece to his 1888 novel Odfeld : In the wake of the Iliad from the Duchy of Braunschweig comes the Odyssey from the Duchy of Braunschweig. By tracing how Raabe drew on the archetypes of the heroic epic ( The Iliad ), the love story ( The Odyssey ), and the historical novel (Vergil's Aeneid as a combination of the two great Homeric epics and as precursor for Walter Scott's Waverley ), this study weaves a complex history of the German national epic as a literary genre.

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Heiko Ullrich, Bruchsal.