As Samuel Johnson noticed, there has always been something odd about Tristram Shandy a literary autobiography that begins with the narrator s conception and ends before his birth. However, while time has been recognized as being central to the narrative strategies of Tristram Shandy, the role of time in the novel has rarely been examined in any substantive detail. This book offers the first extended consideration of the representation of time in Tristram Shandy. Its central argument is that the oddness of the novel s formal and typographical experimentation,...