Laurence Sterne A Life

ISBN-13: 9780192804068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 514 str.

Ross, Ian Campbell

Opis

The story of how a provincial clergyman became the most fashionable writer of his day, life mimicked art for Laurence Sterne as "Tristram Shandy" was denounced and feted in an age of extremes. Notorious for his romantic liaisons, love became his literary inspiration and personal consolation.

Recenzje

intelligent and highly readable biography

O autorze

Ian Campbell Ross is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where he teaches English Literature. His publications include Public Virtue, Public Love: The Early Years of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital (1986, Umbria: A Cultural History (1996), Locating Swift (with Aileen Douglas and Patrick Kelly, 1998), and editions of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and Henry James's The Europeans, both for Oxford World's Classics.