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When the young Theodor Herzl chose to join the duelling fraternity Alba, back in 1881, be adopted the nickname of »Tancred«, either in sympathy with Torquato Tasso’s hero in Jerusalem Delivered or, more likely, with Disraeli’s novel Tancred or the New Crusade, which appeared in 1847 (Pawel 1989, 66–7), more likely, because 1881 marked the year of Disraeli’s death. The nickname is not an accidental choice; beside its psychological implications, it has a larger semiotic value, in that it reflects the role that the historical novel and its heroes played in the intellectual, emotional and practical life of the 19th century.
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Ari, N.B. (1994). The Historical Novel for Youth: In Search of National Identity Via the Adaptation of a New Genre. In: Ewers, HH., Lehnert, G., O’Sullivan, E. (eds) Kinderliteratur im interkulturellen Prozeß. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-03522-6_6
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