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The Literary Influence of Sterne in France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Charles Sears Baldwin
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At the end of his entertaining biography, Mr. Percy Fitzgerald scouts the vogue alleged by Sterne of his Tristram Shandy in France. “Such men as D'Holbach and Diderot might have it on their tables and affect to read a few pages, but to the mass of even educated foreigners, it must have been a book of cabalistics.” “It is very different,” resumes Mr. Fitzgerald, “with the Sentimental Journey. It has been received with delight by all Europe. The French have openly made it their own, and translated it over and over again.”

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PMLA , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , 1902 , pp. 221 - 236
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1902

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References

Note 1 in page 221 Life of Laurence Sterne, vol. ii, p. 436.

Note 2 in page 221 Ibid., vol. ii, p. 438.

Note 3 in page 221 Cf. Diderot: Oeuvres Complètes, ed. Assézat, vol. vi, p. 7.

Note 4 in page 221 The French translations of Tristram Shandy are as follows:

I. Frénais, 1776, 2 vols. (only the first part, cf. Texte: Jean Jacques Rousseau, etc., p. 343);

II. Frénais, 1784 (? noted by the Dictionary of National Biography and the British Museum Catalogue, not by M. Texte);

III. De Bonnay and de la Baume, 1785 (the latter part, cf. Texte, p. 343);

IV. i. and iii. printed together, 1785, 4 vols. (cf. Texte, p. 343);

V. L. de Wailly, Paris, 1842 (noted by the Dictionary of National Biography);

VI. Hédouin, 1890, 1891 (sic, noted by the Dictionary of National Biography).

Note 5 in page 221 Jean Jacques Rousseau et les Origines du Cosmopolitisme littéraire, etc., par Joseph Texte: Paris, 1895; p. 349.

Note 1 in page 222 Le Voyage Sentimental, Frénais, Amsterdam and Paris, 1769 (Texte, p. 343); Liège, 1770 (Dictionary of National Biography). This was often reprinted. Other translations noted in the British Museum Catalogue are: Michel, 1787; Wailly, 1847; Janin, 1854; Hédonin, 1875. Fitzgerald mentions another, by Michot (Life of Sterne, vol. ii, p. 437).

Note 2 in page 222 Essais sur la littérature anglaise, cap. Sterne.

Note 3 in page 222 Jean Jacques Rousseau, etc., p. 351.

Note 4 in page 222 Ibid., p. 349.

Note 6 in page 222 Ibid., p. 350.

Note 1 in page 223 “Le roman de geste,” Texte, ibid., p. 346.

Note 2 in page 223 Ibid., pp. 351, 353.

Note 3 in page 223 Biographie Universelle, art. Sterne.

Note 1 in page 224 Cf. the preface to Pierre et Jean: le Roman.

Note 2 in page 224 Cap. ix,

Note 1 in page 225 Art. Sterne.

Note 2 in page 225 La Bibliothèque de man Oncle, ed. Taylor, p. 124.

Note 1 in page 226 Texte: Jean Jacques Rousseau, etc., p. 346. I have been unable to procure a copy of the latter.

Note 2 in page 226 Translated from the manuscript into German, 1792; first printed in French, 1796 (sic). Diderot: Oeuvres, ed. Assézat, vol. vi, p. 4.

Note 3 in page 226 Ibid., p. 6; and Texte, pp. 345, 346.

Note 4 in page 226 Ibid., p. 6.

Note 1 in page 227 Cf. ibid., p. 106.

Note 2 in page 227 Cf. ibid., p. 48.

Note 3 in page 227 Cf. especially ibid., p. 123, an incident, by the way, actual in the life of Sterne's father.

Note 4 in page 227 Lanson: Histoire de la Littérature Française, p. 726.

Note 5 in page 227 “Un chef d'æuvre,” Diderot, Oeuvres, vol. vi, pp. 4, 7, 8.

Note 1 in page 228 Ibid., pp. 88, 89.

Note 2 in page 228 In 1785; ibid., p. 3.

Note 3 in page 228 Cf. Faguet: Éludes Littéraires, XVIIIe Siècle, p. 298.

Note 4 in page 228 Cf. the complication of the venal confessor, Diderot, Oeuvres, vol. vi., p. 148.

Note 5 in page 228 Ibid., pp. 161, 162.

Note 6 in page 228 Ibid., p. 4.

Note 7 in page 228 Ibid., p. 85.

Note 8 in page 228 Ibid., p. 266.

Note 1 in page 229 Ibid., p. 109. Cf. p. 206.

Note 2 in page 229 Cf. ibid., pp. 131, 132, and the whole episode of Father Hudson, pp. 183 et seq.

Note 3 in page 229 Ibid., p. 279.

Note 4 in page 229 Études Littéraires, XIXe Siècle, pp. 303 et seq.

Note 1 in page 230 Gautier: Nouvelles, ed. Charpentier (1884), pp. 39, 41.

Note 2 in page 230 Ibid., pp. 45–46.

Note 1 in page 231 Published at Turin, 1794.

Note 2 in page 231 Oeuvres Complètes du Comte Xavier de Maistre, etc. (1 vol.), précédée d'une notice . . . par M. Sainte-Beuve: Paris, Garnier, 1839; p. xii.

Note 1 in page 232 Cap. xxiv.

Note 1 in page 234 Cap. ix.

Note 1 in page 235 Capp. v, xl.

Note 2 in page 235 Capp. xxi, xxix, xxx.

Note 3 in page 235 Cf. Cap. xxxiv, on old letters, which is somewhat in the strain of Donald G. Mitchell.

Note 4 in page 235 Études Critiques, vol. iii.

Note 5 in page 235 English Essays from a French Pen, page 147.