Category: German Literature

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

The indebtedness of German culture to other peoples has been the theme of much painstaking investigation. The history of German literature is, in large measure, the story of its successive periods of connection with the literatures of other lands, and hence scholars have sough...

Chapters

6. CHAPTER VI

Among the disciples of Sterne in Germany whose literary imitation may be regarded as typical of their master's influence, Johann Georg Jacobi is perhaps the best known. His rela...

7. CHAPTER VII

Sterne's influence in Germany lived its own life, and gradually and imperceptibly died out of letters, as an actuating principle. Yet its dominion was not achieved without some...

5. CHAPTER V

Thus in manifold ways Sterne was introduced into German life and letters.[1] He stood as a figure of benignant humanity, of lavish sympathy with every earthly affliction, he bec...

4. CHAPTER IV

The publication of the Sentimental Journey, as implied in the previous chapter, brought Sterne into vital connection with literary impulses and emotional experiences in Germany,...

2. CHAPTER II

It is no exaggeration to assert that the works of Yorick obtained and still retain a relatively more substantial position of serious consideration and recognized merit in France...

3. CHAPTER III

On February 27, 1768, the Sentimental Journey was published in London,[1] less than three weeks before the author's death, and the book was at once transplanted to German soil,...

1. CHAPTER I

The indebtedness of German culture to other peoples has been the theme of much painstaking investigation. The history of German literature is, in large measure, the story of its...

13. Chapter VII

expressed themselves quite unequivocally [themsleves] the pleasure of latest posterity." [_final . missing_] "regarded his taste as insulted because I sent him "Yorick's Empfind...

12. Chapter VI

re-introducing a sentimental relationship. [relationiship] nach Erfindung der Buchdrukerkunst [_unchanged_] "Ueber die roten und schwarzen Röcke," [_"Röke" without close quote]...

8. Chapter II

des vaterländischen Geschmack entwickeln [_unchanged: error for "den"?_] Vol. I, St. 2, pp. 245-251, 1772 [245-251.] Bode, the successful and honored translator [sucessful] send...

11. Chapter V

Footnote 3 ... Anmerk. 24 [Anmerk,] Animae quales non candidiores terra tulit." [_missing close quote_] "like Grenough's tooth-tincture [_missing open quote_] founding an order...

9. Chapter III

He says of the first parts of the Sentimental Journey, [Journay] the _Hamburgische Adress-Comptoir-Nachrichten_;[19] [Nachrichten_;" with superfluous close quote] Footnote 19: ....

10. Chapter IV

manages to turn it at once with the greatest delicacy [delicay] the Journey which is here mentioned."[31] [mentionad] Footnote 34: ... (LII, pp. 370-371) [_missing )_] he is pro...