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.

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.

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.