[Gutenberg 26183] • Laurence Sterne in Germany / A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of / England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

[...] CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The indebtedness of German culture to other peoples has been the theme of much painstaking investigation. The history of German literature is, in large measure, the story of its successive periods of connection with the literatures of other lands, and hence scholars have sought with industry and insight to bound and explain such literary inter-relations. The latter half of the eighteenth century was a period of predominant [...].