Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel

Thomas Keymer is Elmore Fellow and Tutor in English at St Anne's College, Oxford and Lecturer in English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. He is the author of Richardson's Clarissa and the Eighteenth-Century Reader (CUP 1992); editor of Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings (Everyman 1994), Henry Fielding's The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Penguin 1996); and co-editor of the six volumes of The Pamela Controversy: Criticisms and Adaptations of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1740-1750 (Pickering and Chatto 2001), Samuel Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (World's Classics 2001), Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Shamela (World's Classics 1999), and volume 1 of Prefaces, Postscripts, and Related Writings of Samuel Richardson (Pickering and Chatto 1998).

• List of illustrations ; List of abbreviations ; Introduction ; I. NARRATIVE DISCOURSE AND PRINT CULTURE FROM PAMELA TO TRISTRAM SHANDY ; 1. Sterne and the 'new species of writing' ; 2. Novels, print, and meaning ; II. THE SERIALIZATION OF TRISTRAM SHANDY ; 3. The practice and poetics of serial fiction ; 4. Serializing a self ; III. STERNE IN THE LITERARY CULTURE OF THE 1760S ; 5. Tristram Shandy and the freshest moderns ; 6. The literature of Whiggism and the politics of war

The many insights of this book's particular readings are fascinating and will doubtless provoke and encourage new work on Tristram Shandy.