James Vigus

• Introduction 1. Style and Syntax as Catalysts of Sterne's Humour in Tristram Shandy 2. The Ruins of Melancholy in Sterne's Tristram Shandy 3. From Personal Identity to Character: Sterne and Hume 4. Literary Castlings and Backwards Flights to Heaven: Sterne's Über-Humor in the work of Jean Paul Richter and Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel 5. Consciousness, Time, and System: On the Structure of Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes in the Light of Tristram Shandy 6. Shandean Taylor Coleridge 7. Karl Marx's Shandean Humour: Scorpion and Felix and its Aftermath 8. The Crafty Art of Textual Pirating: Melville and Sterne 9. From Shandyism to Pataphysics: Sternean Influence in Alfred Jarry's Gestes et opinions du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien