Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-197) and index.
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.
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This book provides an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context. Exploring key issues in his work, including sentimentalism, national identity, gender, print culture and visual culture, as well as his subsequent influence on a range of important literary movements and modes, the book offers a comprehensive new account of Sterne's life and work.
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Sterne, Laurence,1713-1768-- Criticism and interpretation.
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768
Sterne, Laurence,1713-1768-- analys och tolkning.
Sterne, Laurence,1713-1768-- Criticism and interpretation.