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STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY
PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
THE PHILOLOGICAL CLUB OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
NORTH CAROLINA
VOL. III
The Influence of E. T. A. Hoffmann on the
Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
—— BY ——
PALMER COBB
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF GERMAN IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINAs
Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty
of Philosophy, Columbia University
CHAPEL HILL
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1908
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CONTENTS
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY | vii | ||
| INTRODUCTION | 1 | ||
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CHAPTER I |
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| VARIOUS ESTIMATES OF POE'S INDEBTEDNESS TO GERMAN LITERATURE | 4 | ||
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CHAPTER II |
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| GERMAN LITERATURE IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND IN THE THIRTIES AND FORTIES | 15 | ||
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CHAPTER III |
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| POE'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE GERMAN LANGUAGE | 20 | ||
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CHAPTER IV |
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| HOFFMAN'S Elixiere des Teufels AND POE'S William Wilson | 31 | ||
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CHAPTER V |
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| HOFFMANN'S Magnetiseur AND POE'S Tale of the Ragged Mountains | 49 | ||
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CHAPTER VI |
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| HOFFMANN'S Die Jesuiterkirche in G—— AND POE'S The Oval Portrait | 70 | ||
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CHAPTER VII |
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| HOFFMANN'S Doge und Dogaressa AND POE'S The Assignation | 81 | ||
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CHAPTER VIII |
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| POE'S STYLISTIC INDEBTEDNESS TO HOFFMANM | 91 | ||
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CHAPTER IX |
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| CONCLUSION | 103 | ||
| [VITA | 105] | ||
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The dedication reads:
TO
M. L. S.
IN
FRIENDSHIP
Note that M. L. S. has not been identified.
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Notes:
Palmer Cobb, born April 1, 1880 and died February 22, 1911, in New York, at the age of 30. He is buried in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, just outside Philadelphia.(His family was well established in Virginia and prominent in the tobacco industry.) He received his PhD. from Columbia University in 1907. On April 1, 1908, at the Church of the Messiah in Philadelphia, he married Grace Hall Plummer Cobb, who died in 1939. They had one child, a daughter, Grace Louise Cobb (1909-1929), who was born in Berlin, Germany. At the time of his death, Dr. Cobb was an Associate Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of North Carolina, but apparently was in a New York hospital for special medical treatment, presumably for cancer. Following Dr. Cobb's death, Mrs. Cobb donated about 100 books from her husband's library to the Library of the University of North Carolina. Mrs. Cobb's family was apparently from the Philadelphia area, which is why they are all buried there.
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