Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195175608
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
Author: Thomas Keymer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195175608
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195175608
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.
Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey
Author: Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0679641963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel. A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.'
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0679641963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel. A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.'
Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Helen Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108912834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Scrutinising Sterne's fiction through a book history lens, Helen Williams creates novel readings of his work based on meticulous examination of its material and bibliographical conditions. Alongside multiple editions and manuscripts of Sterne's own letters and works, a panorama of interdisciplinary sources are explored, including dance manuals, letter-writing handbooks, newspaper advertisements, medical pamphlets and disposable packaging. For the first time, this wealth of previously overlooked material is critically analysed in relation to the design history of Tristram Shandy, conceptualising the eighteenth-century novel as an artefact that developed in close conjunction with other media. In examining the complex interrelation between a period's literature and the print matter of everyday life, this study sheds new light on Sterne and eighteenth-century literature by re-defining the origins of his work and of the eighteenth-century novel more broadly, whilst introducing readers to diverse print cultural forms and their production histories.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108912834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Scrutinising Sterne's fiction through a book history lens, Helen Williams creates novel readings of his work based on meticulous examination of its material and bibliographical conditions. Alongside multiple editions and manuscripts of Sterne's own letters and works, a panorama of interdisciplinary sources are explored, including dance manuals, letter-writing handbooks, newspaper advertisements, medical pamphlets and disposable packaging. For the first time, this wealth of previously overlooked material is critically analysed in relation to the design history of Tristram Shandy, conceptualising the eighteenth-century novel as an artefact that developed in close conjunction with other media. In examining the complex interrelation between a period's literature and the print matter of everyday life, this study sheds new light on Sterne and eighteenth-century literature by re-defining the origins of his work and of the eighteenth-century novel more broadly, whilst introducing readers to diverse print cultural forms and their production histories.
Tristram Shandy (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Max Byrd
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317678567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
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 respectable provincial clergyman. His explosion into the history of English literature occurred not only without preparation, but also without apparent aptitude. Tristram Shandy, first published in 1985, sketches Sterne’s life and literary antecedents, closely analysing key passages of his great satire and concluding with the critical history and bibliography. It will thus be of use to all students of eighteenth-century English literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317678567
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
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 respectable provincial clergyman. His explosion into the history of English literature occurred not only without preparation, but also without apparent aptitude. Tristram Shandy, first published in 1985, sketches Sterne’s life and literary antecedents, closely analysing key passages of his great satire and concluding with the critical history and bibliography. It will thus be of use to all students of eighteenth-century English literature.
The History of Tom Jones
Author: Henry Fielding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Sterne: Tristram Shandy
Author: Wolfgang Iser
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521328074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Includes chronology of Sterne's life and works, and further history of Tristram Shandy.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521328074
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Includes chronology of Sterne's life and works, and further history of Tristram Shandy.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
Author: Laurence Sterne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Homes and Experiences
Author: Liam Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781473694873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781473694873
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Biblical Sterne
Author: Ryan J. Stark
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350177784
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Shandean Apology -- 2 Paranormal Tristram Shandy -- 3 Are the Sermons Funny? -- 4 Maria in the Biblical Sense -- 5 Otherworldly Yorick -- 6 Ghost Rhetoric -- 7 Why Sterne? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350177784
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Shandean Apology -- 2 Paranormal Tristram Shandy -- 3 Are the Sermons Funny? -- 4 Maria in the Biblical Sense -- 5 Otherworldly Yorick -- 6 Ghost Rhetoric -- 7 Why Sterne? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
The Complete Novels and Selected Writings of Amy Levy, 1861-1889
Author: Amy Levy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813012001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889. During her brief career she published essays, short stories, three novels, and three collections of poetry, but none of them is in print today and her works are to be found almost solely in the closed stacks and rare book collections of university libraries. To correct this unavailability and set the stage for a generous selection of her work, Melvyn New introduces Amy Levy as an unmarried Victorian woman and an urban intellectual, disillusioned by the mores of her culture, yet unable to abandon her identification with the English Jews who embodied so much of what she scorned. He reconstructs her world in 1880s England--a time when the president of the British Medical Association warned his colleagues that educated women would become "more or less sexless. . . . [Such women] have highly developed brains but most of them die young"--raising questions that lead to the tortured heart and mind of this "found" writer.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813012001
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Amy Levy was a talented Anglo-Jewish writer who committed suicide at the age of 28 in 1889. During her brief career she published essays, short stories, three novels, and three collections of poetry, but none of them is in print today and her works are to be found almost solely in the closed stacks and rare book collections of university libraries. To correct this unavailability and set the stage for a generous selection of her work, Melvyn New introduces Amy Levy as an unmarried Victorian woman and an urban intellectual, disillusioned by the mores of her culture, yet unable to abandon her identification with the English Jews who embodied so much of what she scorned. He reconstructs her world in 1880s England--a time when the president of the British Medical Association warned his colleagues that educated women would become "more or less sexless. . . . [Such women] have highly developed brains but most of them die young"--raising questions that lead to the tortured heart and mind of this "found" writer.