
- 361 pages
- English
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About this book
First published in 1975, Laurence Sterne is biography of Sterne's life which emphasizes those experiences which informed Sterne's fiction. The book is based on an exhaustive search for original documents, and a study of the social, political, and ecclesiastical institutions which shaped Sterne's world. We see the novelist as a soldier's child, student, struggling young cleric, Yorkshire famer, and judge of the spiritual courts, and we trace his literary development from political hack to humourist. The story begins β like Tristram's β with the subject's conception and ends with the publication of Volumes I and II of Tristram Shandy. This book will be of interest to students of literature, literary history as well as to any casual reader of Sterne's novels.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Original Title
- Original Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Short Titles & Abbreviations
- The Sterne family: a sketch pedigree
- Chapter 1 Birth & Early Childhood 1713β1724
- Chapter 2 Hipperholme, Halifax & Skircoat 1724β1733
- Chapter 3 Cambridge 1733β1737
- Chapter 4 Early Career & Marriage 1737β1741
- Chapter 5 Politics 1741β1742
- Chapter 6 Vicar of Sutton 1741β1744
- Chapter 7 Stillington & the Tindal Farm 1744β1745
- Chapter 8 The β45 1743β1747
- Chapter 9 Crazy Castle
- Chapter 10 Hobby Horses
- Chapter 11 Prebendary of York 1747β1751
- Chapter 12 Commissary of the Peculiar Courts 1750β1756
- Chapter 13 A Political Romance 1757β1759
- Chapter 14 Tristram Shandy, IβII 1759β1760
- Appendix I Portraits of Sterne
- Appendix II Addenda and Corrigenda
- Index