Note 1 — Chapter VI · IMITATORS OF STERNE
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Quellen und Forschungen, II, p. 27.
2. Jacobi remarked, in his preface to the “Winterreise” in the edition of 1807, that this section, “Der Taubenschlag” is not to be reckoned as bearing the trace of the then condemned “Empfindeley,” for many authors, ancient and modern, have taken up the cause of animals against man; yet Sterne is probably the source of Jacobi’s expression of his feeling.
3. XI, 2, pp. 16 f.
4. For reviews of the “Sommerreise” see Allg. deutsche Bibl., XIII, i, p. 261, Deutsche Bibl. der schönen Wissenschaften, IV, p. 354, and Neue Critische Nachrichten, Greifswald, V, p. 406. Almanach der deutschen Musen, 1770, p. 112. The “Winterreise” is also reviewed there, p. 110.
5. Some minor points may be noted. Longo implies (page 2) that it was Bode’s translation of the original Sentimental Journey which was re-issued in four volumes, Hamburg and Bremen, 1769, whereas the edition was practically identical with the previous one, and the two added volumes were those of Stevenson’s continuation. Longo calls Sterne’s Eliza “Elisha” (p. 28) and Tristram’s father becomes Sir Walter Shandy (p. 37), an unwarranted exaltation of the retired merchant.
6. Review in the Jenaische Zeitungen von Gel. Sachen
7. I, pp. 314 + 20; II, 337; III. 330.
8. I, p. 156; III, p. 318.
9. Schummel states this himself, III, p. 320.
10. Tristram Shandy, III, 51–54.
11. Pp. 256–265.
12. P. 34.
13. Shandy, I, p. 75; Schummel, I, p. 265.
14. II, p. 117.
15. In “Das Kapitel von meiner Lebensart,” II, pp. 113 ff.
16. XVI, 2, pp. 682–689.
17. The third part is reviewed (Hr) in XIX, 2, pp. 576–7, but without significant contribution to the question.
18. I, 2, pp. 66–74, the second number of 1772. Review is signed “S.”
19. Another review of Schummel’s book is found in the Almanach der deutschen Musen, 1773, p. 106.
20. XI, 2, p. 344; XV, 1, p. 249; XVII, 1, p. 244. Also entitled “Begebenheiten des Herrn Redlich,” the novel was published Wittenberg, 1756–71; Frankfurt and Leipzig, 1768–71.
21. XXVIII, 1, pp. 199 ff. Reviewed also in Auserlesene Bibliothek der neusten deutschen Litteratur, Lemgo, VII, p. 234 (1775) and Neue litterarische Unterhaltungen, Breslau, I, pp. 660–691.
22. Leipzig, Crusius, 1776, pp. 120. Baker, influenced by title and authorship, includes it among the literary progeny of Yorick. It has no connection with Sterne.
23. See Jahresberichte für neuere deutsche Litteratur-geschichte, II, p. 106 (1893).
24. Breslau, 1792. It is included in Baker’s list.
25. Frankfurt and Leipzig, pp. 208. Baker regards these two editions as two different works.
26. Sentimental Journey, pp. 87–88.
27. Sentimental Journey, p. 73.
28. Pp. 45–50.
29. Pp. 106–119.
30. Die Gesellschafterin, pp. 131–144.
31. Pp. 145–155.
32. Die Dame, pp. 120–130.
33. V, St. 2, p. 371.
34. Anhang to XIII-XXIV, Vol. II, p. 1151.
35. Letter to Raspe, Göttingen, June 2, 1770, in Weimarisches Jahrbuch, III, p. 28.
36. Frankfurter Gel. Anz., April 27, 1773, pp. 276–8.
37. Hamburgischer unpartheyischer Correspondent, December 31, 1771.
38. Other reviews are (2) and (3), Frankfurter gel. Anz., November 27, 1772; (2) and (3), Allg. deutsche Bibl., XIX, 2, p. 579 (Musäus) and XXIV, 1, p. 287; of the series, Neue Critische Nachrichten (Greifswald), IX, p. 152. There is a rather full analysis of (1) in Frankfurter Gel. Anz., 1773, pp. 276–8, April 27. According to Wittenberg in the Altonaer Reichs-Postreuter (June 21, 1773), Holfrath Deinet was the author of this review. A sentimental episode from these “Journeys” was made the subject of a play called “Der Greis” and produced at Munich in 1774. (See Allg. deutsche Bibl., XXXII, 2, p. 466).
39. Berlin, 1873.
40. Deutsches Museum, VI, p. 384, and VII, p. 220.
41. Reval und Leipzig, 1788, 2d edition, 1792, and published in “Kleine gesammelte Schriften,” Reval und Leipzig, 1789, Vol. III, pp. 131–292. Reviewed in Allg. Litt.-Zeitung, 1789, II, p. 736.
42. Leipzig, 1793, pp. 224, 8o, by Georg Joachim Göschen.
43. See the account of Ulm, and of Lindau near the end of the volume.
44. See pp. 21–22 and 105.
45. “Geschichte der komischen Literatur,” III, p. 625.
46. See “Briefwechsel zwischen Goethe und Schiller,” edited by Boxberger. Stuttgart, Spemann, Vol. I, p. 118.
47. It is to be noted also that von Thümmel’s first servant bears the name Johann.
48. “Charis oder über das Schöne und die Schönheit in den bildenden Künsten” by Ramdohr, Leipzig, 1793.
49. “Schiller’s Briefe,” edited by Fritz Jonas, III, pp. 316, 319. Letters of June 6 and June 23 (?), 1793.
50. “Briefe von Christian Garve an Chr. Felix Weisse, und einige andern Freunde,” Breslau, 1803, p. 189–190. The book was reviewed favorably by the Allg. Litt. Zeitung, 1794, IV, p. 513.
51. Falkenburg, 1796, pp. 110. Goedeke gives Bremen as place of publication.
52. Ebeling, III, p. 625, gives Hademann as author, and Fallenburg—both probably misprints.
53. The review is of “Auch Vetter Heinrich hat Launen, von G. L. B., Frankfurt-am-Main, 1796”—a book evidently called into being by a translation of selections from “Les Lunes du Cousin Jacques.” Jünger was the translator. The original is the work of Beffroy de Regny.
54. Hedemann’s book is reviewed indifferently in the Allg. Litt. Zeitung. (Jena, 1798, I, p. 173.)
55. Von Rabenau wrote also “Hans Kiekindiewelts Reise” (Leipzig, 1794), which Ebeling (III, p. 623) condemns as “the most commonplace imitation of the most ordinary kind of the comic.”
56. It is also reviewed by Musäus in the Allg. deutsche Bibl., XIX, 2, p. 579.
57. The same opinion is expressed in the Jenaische Zeitungen von Gelehrten Sachen, 1776, p. 465. See also Schwinger’s study of “Sebaldus Nothanker,” pp. 248–251; Ebeling, p. 584; Allg. deutsche Bibl., XXXII, 1, p. 141.
58. Leipzig and Liegnitz, 1775.
59. The Leipziger Museum Almanach, 1776, pp. 69–70, agrees in this view.
60. XXIX, 2, p. 507.
61. 1776, I, p. 272.
62. An allusion to an episode of the “Sommerreise.”
63. “Sophie von la Roche,” Göttinger Dissertation, Einbeck, 1895.
64. Allg. deutsche Bibl., XLVII, 1, p. 435; LII, 1, p. 148, and Anhang, XXIV-XXXVI, Vol. II, p. 903–908.
65. The quotation is really from the spurious ninth volume in Zückert’s translation.
66. For these references to the snuff-box, see pp. 53, 132–3, 303 and 314.
67. In “Sommerreise.”
68. Other examples are found pp. 57, 90, 255, 270, 209, 312, 390, and elsewhere.
69. See Auserlesene Bibliothek der neuesten deutschen Litteratur, VII, p. 399; Almanach der deutschen Musen, 1775, p. 75; Magazin der deutschen Critik, III, 1, p. 174; Frankfurter Gel. Anz., July 1, 1774; Allg. deutsche Bibl., XXVI, 2, 487; Teut. Merkur, VI, p. 353; Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitungen, 1774, I, p. 17.
70. Leipzig, 1773–76, 4 vols. “Tobias Knaut” was at first ascribed to Wieland.
71. Gervinus, V, pp. 225 ff.; Ebeling, III, p. 568; Hillebrand, II, p. 537; Kurz, III, p. 504; Koberstein, IV, pp. 168 f. and V, pp. 94 f.
72. The “Magazin der deutschen Critik” denied the imitation altogether.
73. I, p. 178.
74. I, p. 117.
75. I, pp. 148 ff.
76. I, p. 17.
77. III, pp. 99–104.
78. II, p. 44.
79. For reviews of “Tobias Knaut” see Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitung, April 13, 1774, pp. 193–5; Magazin der deutschen Critik, III, 1, p. 185 (1774); Frankfurter Gel. Anz., April 5, 1774, pp. 228–30; Almanach der deutschen Musen, 1775, p. 75; Leipziger Musen-Almanach, 1776, pp. 68–69; Allg. deutsche Bibl., XXX, 2, pp. 524 ff., by Biester; Teut. Merkur, V, pp. 344–5; VII, p. 361–2, 1776, pp. 272–3, by Merck.
80. Berlin, nine parts, 1775–1785. Vol I, pp. 128 (1775); Vol. II, pp. 122; Vol. III, pp. 141; Vol. IV, pp. 198 (1779); Vols. V and VI, 1780; Vols. I and II were published in a new edition in 1778, and Vol. III in 1780 (a third edition).
81. XXIX, 1, p. 186; XXXVI, 2, p. 601; XLIII, 1, p. 301; XLVI, 2, p. 602; LXII, 1, p. 307.
82. See p. 8.
83. 1777, II, p. 278, review of Vols. II and III. Vol. I is reviewed in Frankfurter Gel. Anz., 1775, p. 719–20 (October 31), and IX in Allg. Litt.-Zeitung, Jena, 1785, V, Supplement-Band, p. 80.
84. See p. 89.
85. Briefe deutscher Gelehrten aus Gleims Nachlass. (Zürich, 1806.)
86. Emil Kuh’s life of Hebbel, Wien, 1877, I, p. 117–118.
87. The “Empfindsame Reise der Prinzessin Ananas nach Gros-glogau” (Riez, 1798, pp. 68, by Gräfin Lichterau?) in its revolting loathesomeness and satirical meanness is an example of the vulgarity which could parade under the name. In 1801 we find “Prisen aus der hörneren Dose des gesunden Menschenverstandes,” a series of letters of advice from father to son. A play of Stephanie the younger, “Der Eigensinnige,” produced January 29, 1774, is said to have connection with Tristram Shandy; if so, it would seem to be the sole example of direct adaptation from Sterne to the German stage. “Neue Schauspiele.” Pressburg and Leipzig, 1771–75, Vol. X.
88. P. 185, edition of 1805.
89. See below p. 166–7.
90. Hannover, 1792, pp. 80, 263.
91. LXVI, p. 79, 1801.
92. Sometime after the completion of this present essay there was published in Berlin, a study of “Sterne, Hippel and Jean Paul,” by J. Czerny (1904). I have not yet had an opportunity to examine it.