By Sterne, Laurence; Howes, Alan B.; Sterne, Laurence
ISBN-10: 0203196996
ISBN-13: 9780203196991
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14 Sternesque fragments appeared frequently in the pages of the Massachusetts Magazine during its brief history from 1789 to 1796,15 and the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy, which appeared in 1789, 17 INTRODUCTION contained a warm defense of Sterne against the ‘antisentimentalists’ (No. 87). But at the same time that Sterne was imitated and praised, many moralists saw a danger in his sensibility (Nos 100, 105). As one writer said, ‘By blending sentiments of benevolence and delicacy with immorality and looseness, he induces some people to think that debauchery may be innocent, and adultery meritorious’ (No.
16 Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron, also found Sterne intellectually stimulating. 17 Among other famous Americans, Sterne had both advocates and detractors. The praise of Jefferson and the censure of Trumbull have already been noted (Nos 62, 60). ’18 The young Emerson felt that Goethe’s enthusiasm for Sterne (No. 145) was one of the German writer’s ‘few blunders,’19 but Sterne’s name appeared more frequently than that of any other English author in the 18 INTRODUCTION early journals of Washington Irving.
A few years later Mme de Staël cited Sterne as the best example of that English humor in which there is ‘moodiness…almost sadness’ (No. 136a). Both Dominique-Joseph Garat (No. 137) and Charles Nodier (No. 139) read Tristram Shandy with pleasure and made perceptive comparisons between Sterne and Rabelais. Garat, writing in 1820, refers to Voltaire’s two British Rabelaises, Swift and Sterne: in all three, Rabelaises ‘buffoonery and philosophy are always very close to each other,’ he says. ’ Nodier believes that the ‘two great mockers have blazed a trail for modern philosophic thought,’ though Rabelais lived in an age of growth and Sterne in a dying age.