Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe

Peter de Voogd is Professor of English Literature at the University of Utrecht. John Neubauer is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Amsterdam and author of The Fin-de-siècle Culture of Adolescence (1992, Yale UP).

• Introduction: Sterne Crosses the Channel, Peter De Voogd and John Neubauer; Movements of Sensibility and Sentiment - Sterne in 18th-century France, Lana Asfour; Romantic to Avant-garde - Sterne in 19th- and 20th-century France, Anne Bandry; "Sterne-Bilder" - Sterne in the German-speaking World, Duncan Large; Sterne in the Netherlands, Peter De Voogd; Sterne's Nordic Presence - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Paul Goring and Eli Lofaldli; From Imperial Court to Peasant's Cot - Sterne in Russia - Neil Stewart; Sterne in Poland, Grazyna Bystydzienska and Wojciech Nowicki; Conceiving Selves and Others - Sterne and Croatian Culture, Tatjana Jukic; Sterne in Hungary - Gabriella Hartvig; The Sentimental, the "Inconclusive", the Digressive - Sterne in Italy - Olivia Santovetti; Stern'e Arrival in Portugal, Manual Portela; Sterne Castles in Spain, Sternean Material Culture - Lorenzo's Snuffbox and Sylvio's Grave, W.G. Day; Shandean Theories of the Novel - from Friedrich Schlegel's German Romanticism to Shklovskii's Russian Formalism, John Neubauer and Neil Stewart.

"It is a tribute to the fascinating material to be found throughout this volume that one often wishes the book were longer...As should be clear, his volume is a gold-mine of information and a treasury of affectionate readings and creative misreadings of Laurence Sterne, often made in difficult political or personal circumstances, as well as a work of enormous value to a range of readers -- not only Sterneans or those interested in the reception of British authors in Europe but also, for example, those concerned with translation per se." Ian Campbell Ross, The Shandean, Autumn 2005