Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Laurence Sterne’s life, milieu, and literary career
- 2 Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the ‘Rabelaisian Fragment’, and the origins of Tristram Shandy
- 3 Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge
- 4 Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative
- 5 The Sermons of Mr. Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart
- 6 A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling
- 7 Sterne’s ‘politicks’, Ireland, and evil speaking
- 8 Words, sex, and gender in Sterne’s novels
- 9 Sterne and print culture
- 10 Sterne and visual culture
- 11 Sterne and the Modernist Moment
- 12 Postcolonial Sterne
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Further reading
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Laurence Sterne’s life, milieu, and literary career
- 2 Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the ‘Rabelaisian Fragment’, and the origins of Tristram Shandy
- 3 Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge
- 4 Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative
- 5 The Sermons of Mr. Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart
- 6 A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling
- 7 Sterne’s ‘politicks’, Ireland, and evil speaking
- 8 Words, sex, and gender in Sterne’s novels
- 9 Sterne and print culture
- 10 Sterne and visual culture
- 11 Sterne and the Modernist Moment
- 12 Postcolonial Sterne
- Further reading
- Index
- Series List
Summary
Scholarly editions of Tristram Shandy, the Sermons, and A Sentimental Journey in the standard Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, six vols. to date (Gainesville, FL: University Presses of Florida, 1978- ) are listed in the List of abbreviations at the start of the book; The Letters of Laurence Sterne, eds. Melvyn New and Peter de Voogd, two vols., is forthcoming in the same series. There are good paperback editions of Tristram Shandy by Ian Campbell Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), Melvyn New (London: Penguin, 2003), and Robert Folkenflik (New York, NY: Random House, 2004). Tim Parnell's Oxford World's Classics edition of A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) also includes A Political Romance, the Journal to Eliza, and selected sermons; an excellent alternative, though lacking A Political Romance, is A Sentimental Journey and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal, with Related Texts, eds. Melvyn New and W. G. Day (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett, 2006). Two specialist periodicals contain valuable material, a few examples of which are listed below: the Shandean, a volume devoted annually since 1989 to scholarly research on Sterne, and the semi-annual Scriblerian, which since 1986 has carried reviews and digests of new work plus updates to the Florida annotations.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne , pp. 190 - 197Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009