| Description |
1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 172 |
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 172.
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| Contents |
Labyrinth of Digressions; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; A Note on References; Introduction; PART ONE: POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS; Chapter One: Tristram in Grub Street; Chapter Two: Sterne in Covent-Garden; Chapter Three: Sentiment, or Something Like It; PART TWO: CONTAMINATION; Chapter Four: Impulses; Chapter Five: Nonsense and the Grotesque; PART THREE: SHIFTING THEMES; Chapter Six: Soldiers; Chapter Seven: Women; Chapter Eight: Physicians; Chapter Nine: Philosophers; Epilogue: The Waning of the Satirical Age; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers' hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne's success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new volumes, critical or ironic pamphlets, and works that in style and title express a congeniality with Tristram Shandy . This study explores these eighteenth-century imitations as indicators of contemporary assumptions about Sterne's intentions. Comparisons between the original, the first reactions, and a numb |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-312) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
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Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 fast |
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Sterne, Laurence. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy. swd |
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Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence) fast |
| Subject |
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Rezeption
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The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne)
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Imitatie.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Verhoeff, Piet
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| LC no. |
2009379940 |
| ISBN |
9781435612914 |
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1435612914 |
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9789401205061 |
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940120506X |
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1282265695 |
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9781282265691 |
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9786612265693 |
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6612265698 |
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