Laurence Sterne's life, milieu, and literary career / Ian Campbell Ross -- Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the Rabelaisian Fragment, and the origins of Tristram Shandy / Marcus Walsh -- Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge / Judith Hawley -- Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative / Robert Folkenflik -- The Sermons of Mr. Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart / Tim Parnell -- A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling / Thomas Keymer -- Sterne's politicks, Ireland, and evil speaking / Carol Watts -- Words, sex, and gender in Sterne's novels / Elizabeth W. Harries -- Sterne and print culture / Christopher Fanning -- Sterne and visual culture / Peter De Voogd -- Sterne and the modernist moment / Melvyn New -- Postcolonial Sterne / Donald R. Wehrs.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 -- Criticism and interpretation