Jeremy Barham: “Mahler and Benevolent Shandyan Humour” The influence of Anglo-Irish novelist Laurence Sterne (1713–68) on later traditions of German romantic literature, philosophy, and irony is evident from the encomia of Goethe, Schiller, Jean Paul, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche. Mahler’s enthusiasm for the humour in Sterne’s magnum opus Tristram Shandy (1759–67) also places him in a wider […]