Laurence Sterne

Marcus Walsh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317879145
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The eighteenth century was a period when the modern Novel emerged through the work of writers such as Laurence Sterne (1713-68), Richardson, Defoe, Fielding and Johnson. However, the writing of Sterne is recognised as influencing modern writing from Joyce and Woolf onwards more than any of the other eighteenth century novelists.In the last twenty years Sterne's work has become a focus for a flourishing body of work and significant debates in many new and developing areas of literary theory which include gender, sexuality, postmodernism, and deconstruction. Sterne's major novel 'Tristram Shandy' is regarded as deploying a range of 'post-modern literary devices' expected to be found in late twentieth century work rather than in work written in the 1700s. Thisvolume combines the most interesting and stimulating recent critical thinking about Sterne and represents recent theoretical and critical debates surrounding Sterne's writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART ONE: Sociality and Sensibility
• PART TWO: Feminism/Gender/Sexualities
• PART THREE: Sterne and the Body
• PART FOUR: Sources, Imitation, Plagiarism
• PART FIVE: Narrative and Form
• Notes on Authors
• Further Reading
• Index