| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 197 pages) |
| Series |
The Cambridge companions complete collection |
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The Cambridge companions to literature and classics |
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Cambridge collections online
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Cambridge companions complete collection
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Cambridge companions to literature and classics
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| Contents |
Introduction / Thomas Keymer -- 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 |
| Summary |
Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey and for his controversial sermons. Scholars provide an authoritative and accessible guide to Sterne's writings in their historical and cultural context |
| Notes |
"Cambridge collections online." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version; title from home page (viewed Feb. 4, 2011) |
| Subject |
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. fast (OCoLC)fst00038613 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Keymer, Thomas, 1962-
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| LC no. |
2009005581 |
| ISBN |
0521614945 (paperback) |
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0521849721 (hardback) |
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1139002597 (electronic bk.) |
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9780521614948 (paperback) |
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9780521849722 (hardback) |
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9781139002592 (electronic bk.) |
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