Tristram Shandy

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Max Byrd's lucidly written and compelling volume aims to provide a scholarly introduction to one of the most puzzling pieces of eighteenth-century literature, and a stimulus to critical thought and discussion. Laurence Sterne - an eccentric and largely unsuccessful clergyman - was forty-six when he sat down in January of 1759 to being his literary masterpiece. Aside from his sermons, only two of which had ever been published, Sterne had little more to do with the literary life than any other re…

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Full title :Tristram Shandy.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (173 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781317678564, 1317678567, 9781315772486, 1315772485
oclc:ocn886111216
LC Classification:PR3714.L53 B97 2014
Dewey Decimal:823.6

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 'A Picture of Myself'; (i) Biographical; (ii) Bibliographical; (iii) 'A Picture of Myself'; (iv) 'Role Distance'; (v) Child's Play; 2 The Line of Wit: Literary Backgrounds; (i) Sources and Plagiarism; (ii) Rabelais; (iii) Cervantes; (iv) Swift; 3 An Age of Sensibility; (i) The Legacy of Richardson: From Pamela to The Man of Feeling; (ii) Self-Consciousness and Subjectivity; (iii) The Metamorphosis of Satire: The Idea of Madness; 4 Style.

(I) The Elements of Style(ii) Chance Design; 5 The Discovery of a Key: Volumes I and II; (i) First Chapters: Clock and Bull Stories; (ii) The Enlargement of Toby; (iii) Dr Slop and Trim's Sermon; 6 The Indecent and the Sentimental Sublime: Volumes III-VI; (i) Noses and Whiskers; (ii) Phutatorius and the Chestnut; (iii) The Death of Bobby; (iv) The Death of Le Fever; 7 'Joy of the Worm': Volumes VII-IX; (i) Volume VII: The 'Teeth of Time'; (ii) In Which Nothing Is Concluded; 8 Critical History; (i) Contemporary; (ii) Nineteenth-Century; (iii) Twentieth-Century; Selected Bibliography; Index.