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

by Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer

[43.] See Erich Schmidt’s “Richardson, Rousseau und Goethe,” Jena, 1875, p. 297.

[44.] See Jenaische Zeitungen von Gel. Sachen, 1780, pp. 627, 761.

[45.] The full title is “Der Empfindsame Maurus Pankrazius Ziprianus Kurt auch Selmar genannt, ein Moderoman,” published by Keyser at Erfurt, 1781–83, with a second edition, 1785–87.

[46.] “Faramonds Familiengeschichte, in Briefen,” Erfurt, Keyser, 1779–81. Allg. deutsche Bibl., XLIV, 1, p. 120; Jenaische Zeitungen von Gel. Sachen, 1780, pp. 273, 332; 1781, pp. 113, 314.

[47.] Pp. 8–9.

[48.] Goethe’s review of Schummel’s “Empfindsame Reise” in Frankfurter Gel. Anz. represents the high-water mark of understanding criticism relative to individual work, but represents necessarily no grasp of the whole movement.

[49.] Frankfurt, 1778, Allg. deutsche Bibl., XL, 1, 119. This is by Baker incorrectly ascribed J. F. Abel, the author of “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Liebe,” 1778.

[50.] P. 15.

[51.] P. 17.

[52.] P. 18.