Sterne, Tristram, Yorick

Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

AvMelvyn New,Peter de Voogd,Judith Hawley

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Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne may well be the most internationally accepted of all eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a sentimental traveler.This collection recognizes three faces of Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining, respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of literary studies—a return to aesthetics.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-11-12
Mått159 x 237 x 27 mm
Vikt562 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor286
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781611495706

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Melvyn New is professor emeritus at the University of Florida and general editor of the recently concluded Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne in nine volumes.Judith Hawley is professor of eighteenth-century literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was a coorganizer of the Tercentenary Sterne Conference.Peter de Voogd is professor emeritus of English at the University of Utrecht, founding editor of The Shandean, and coorganizer of the Tercentenary Sterne Conference.

List of Short TitlesIntroductionPat RogersSterne1. Small Particles of Fame: Subjectivity, Celebrity, SterneThomas Keymer2. Bohemian SterneElizabeth Kraft3. Political SterneJohn Owen Havard4. Laurence Sterne and Common Sense: Discursive Shifts in Eighteenth-Century English CultureChristoph HenkeTristram5. Anarchic Signification and Motions of Grace in Sterne’s Novelistic SatireDonald R. Wehrs6. Sterne’s “Little Gentleman”: Tristram Shandy and the Male Participant in ChildbirthAshleigh Blackwood7. Every Jerkin Has a Quicksilver Lining: Tristram's Rumpled DualismsRobert Chibka8. Dolly’s Inch of Red Seal Wax, or, Impressing the Reader in Tristram ShandyAmelia Dale9. Fray Gerundio de Campazas and Tristram Shandy: Convergent Cervantine Novels?Artem SerebrennikovYorick10. Yorick’s Ethnographic JourneyRay McDermott11. The Masquerade Metaphor and the Paradoxes of Sentiment in A Sentimental JourneyJakub Lipski12. The Poetics of the Passport in A Sentimental JourneyStephanie DeGooyer13. Laurence Sterne and the Aesthetics of Everyday LifeBrian Michael NortonWorks CitedContributorsIndex

This collection epitomizes not just the state of Sterne scholarship but of literary scholarship in our critical moment. What comes forth is not simply a group of essays that add texture and dimension to an artist and corpus of work growing in stature, but also is an exemplar of how eighteenth-century studies is broadening our understanding of history, art and aesthetics, philosophy, gender studies, and social sciences.