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LAURENCE STERNE
IN GERMANY
A Contribution to the Study of the
Literary Relations of England and
Germany in the Eighteenth Century
By
HARVEY WATERMAN THAYER, Ph.D.
Sometime Fellow in Germanic Languages and
Literatures, Columbia University
Copyright 1905, Columbia University Press, New York
NOTE
Mr. Thayer has undertaken to write, in detail and from the sources, the
history of Sterne's vogue in Germany. As thus broadly defined the task
had not before been attempted, although phases of it had been treated,
more or less thoroughly, in recent monographs. The work here submitted,
the result of careful research in a number of American and European
libraries, is in my judgment an interesting and valuable contribution to
our knowledge of the literary relations of England and Germany at the
time of the great renascence of German letters.
CALVIN THOMAS.
Columbia University, May, 1905.
PREFACE
The following study was begun in the autumn of 1901, and was practically
finished now more than a year ago. Since its completion two works of
interest to lovers of Sterne have been issued, Czerny's study of
Sterne's influence upon Hippel and Jean Paul, a work which the present
author had planned as a continuation of this book, and Prof. Cross's new
definitive edition of Sterne.
I desire here to express my thanks to Prof. W. H. Carpenter, Prof.
Calvin Thomas and Prof. W. P. Trent, under whose guidance my last year
of University residence was spent: their interest in my work was
generous and unfailing; their admirable scholarship has been and will
continue to be an inspiration. I am indebted to Prof. Carpenter and
Prof. Thomas for many helpful suggestions regarding the present work,
and the latter especially has given freely of his valuable time to a
consideration of my problems. I am grateful also to several other
friends for helpful and kindly service, and to many librarians in this
country and in Europe for their courtesy.
NEW YORK, May 1, 1905.
CONTENTS
Chapter I. Introduction 1