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Laurence Sterne 1/e

Marcus Walsh
Published July 2002 by Longman
Copyright 2002, 232 pp., Paper
ISBN: 0582368502

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Summary

The eighteenth century was a period when the modern Novel emerged through the work of writers such as Laurence Sterne (1713-68), Richardson, Defoe, Fielding and Johnson. However, the writing of Sterne is recognized as influencing modern writing from Joyce and Woolf onwards more than any of the other eighteenth century novelists. In the last twenty years Sterne's work has become a focus for a flourishing body of work and significant debates in many new and developing areas of literary theory which include gender, sexuality, postmodernism, and deconstruction. Sterne's major novel 'Tristram Shandy' is regarded as deploying a range of 'post-modern literary devices' expected to be found in late twentieth century work rather than in work written in the 1700s. KEY TOPICS: This is a critical reader, made up of a collection of essays, which combines the most interesting and stimulating recent critical thinking about Sterne. These essays represent recent theoretical and critical debates surrounding Sterne's writing and are grouped thematically MARKET: For readers interested in literary criticism and 18th century literature.

Features

Wide-ranging and accessible introduction provides broad survey of writing on Sterne.
Volume covers whole range of theoretical approaches, organised in five thematic, easy-to-follow sections.
Each section prefaced by discussion of critical debate.
Each section provides pair of theoretically contrasting essays - gives reader sense of the debate.
Includes comprehensive and extensively-annotated list of Further Reading for students to follow up own research.

Marcus Walsh is Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. He has written extensively on Smart, Swift, Johnson, and Stern. Publications include Christopher Smart: Poetical Works Vols I and II, (OUP 1983,1987), and Shakespeare, Milton, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing (CUP 1997)

Table of Contents

Sterne & 'Theory'

Sterne & 'Theory' in the twentieth century

Sterne & 'Theory' in the 1980's and 1990's

Sociality and Sensibility

1. 'Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne and Male Homosexual Desire'

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

2. 'Laurence Sterne and the "Sociality" of the Novel'

Feminism/Gender/Sexualities

3. 'Words for Sex: The Verbal-Sexual Continuum in Tristram Shandy'

4. 'Job's Wife and Sterne's Other Women'

Sterne and the Body

5. '"Uncrystalized Flesh and Blood": The Body in Tristram Shandy'

Juliet McMaster

6. 'Running out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction

Carol Houlihan Flynn

Sources, Imitation, Plagiarism

7. 'Sterne, Burton, and Ferriar: Allusions to the Anatomy of Melancholy in Volumes V to IX of Tristram Shandy'

8. 'Sterne's System of Imitation'

Jonathan Lamb

Narrative and Form

9. 'Narrative Middles: a Preliminary Outline'

J. Hillis Miller

10. 'On Sterne's Page: Spatial Layout, Spatial Form, and Social Spaces in Tristram Shandy'

Christopher Fanning

Notes on authors

Further reading

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