Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in England in a series of volumes from 1759 to 1767. An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is the most protean and playful English novel of the eighteenth century and a celebration of the art of fiction; its inventiveness anticipates the work of Joyce,...
Introduction and Notes by Robert Folkenflik
Rich in playful double entendres, digressions, formal oddities, and typographical experiments, The L...
Samuel Johnson and Samuel Richardson condemned it. James Boswell and Goethe proclaimed it a masterpiece. And from the beginning Sterne realized he had written a book that would not suit everyone's taste. For more than two centuries. Tristram Shandy (1759-67) has astounded - and by turns confounded, captivated, angered, and amused but ever entertained - readers worldwide. While on the surface a comic, disjointed account of the title character's life and times, the work is in fact a brilliant commentary on life's inherent chaos, the pointed challenge of British clergy-man-turned-author Laurence...
Samuel Johnson and Samuel Richardson condemned it. James Boswell and Goethe proclaimed it a masterpiece. And from the beginning Sterne realized he had...
"Every serious student of 18th-century religious thought will need to come to terms with this edition of Sterne's sermons. . . . The annotation alone will force scholars to explore again the notion that 18th-century Anglicanism, and Sterne's Anglicanism in particular, was devoid of conviction. . . . One of the special strengths of this edition is the editor's decision to provide ample quoted material from authors who influenced Sterne's work in these sermons. . . . Extremely erudite and sensitive."--William Spellman, University of North Carolina, Asheville This two-volume scholarly...
"Every serious student of 18th-century religious thought will need to come to terms with this edition of Sterne's sermons. . . . The annotation alone ...
In annotated texts based on those of the acclaimed Florida Edition of "The Works of Laurence Sterne," this edition features the two works Sterne produced in the final year of his illness-plagued life: the witty, bawdy, pathetic, and thoughtful "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy"; and "Continuation of the Bramine's Journal," Sterne's correspondence to a twenty-two-year-old married Englishwoman living in India ("a Diary," as he put it, "of the miserable feelings of a person separated from a Lady for whose Society he languish'd").
Together, these mutually illuminating works...
In annotated texts based on those of the acclaimed Florida Edition of "The Works of Laurence Sterne," this edition features the two works Sterne pr...
This book is the culmination of more than forty years of research. These two volumes, the seventh and eighth in the heralded "Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne", offer the first collection of Sterne's letters in seventy-five years. Thirty new letters have been added, and all have been carefully and precisely reedited, making this the most accurate edition of his letters ever produced. The correspondence is thoroughly keyed to Sterne's published output, much of which has previously been edited by Melvyn New. New and coeditor Peter de Voogd also make major use of Arthur Cash's...
This book is the culmination of more than forty years of research. These two volumes, the seventh and eighth in the heralded "Florida Edition of the W...
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Stern published several novels, sermons and his memoirs. He is best-known for his novel Tristram Shandy. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, first published in 1768, is a mixture of autobiography, travel, impressions, and fiction in which the author shares his observations of France and Italy through the character of Mr. Yorick.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Stern published several novels, sermons and his memoirs. He is best-known for his novel T...
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Sterne published several novels, sermons and his memoirs. He is best-known for his novel Tristram Shandy. A Political Romance is an allegory presenting a squabble over a greatcoat between a church lawyer, an archbishop and a Dean. In 1759 angry church leaders suppressed the original manuscript. In 1905 an original and unexpected copy was found in the library of the dean and chapter of York. In 1914 A Political Romance was finally published.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) was an Irish Anglican clergyman. Sterne published several novels, sermons and his memoirs. He is best-known for his novel ...
