Chapter I: 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

Chapter II. Sterne in Germany before the Publication
of The Sentimental Journey 9

Chapter III. The Publication of The Sentimental Journey 35

Chapter IV. Sterne in Germany after the Publication of
The Sentimental Journey 55

Chapter V. Sterne's Influence in Germany 84

Chapter VI. Imitators of Sterne 112

Chapter VII. Opposition to Sterne and His Type of
Sentimentalism 156