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This volume combines the most interesting and stimulating recent critical thinking about Sterne and represents recent theoretical and critical debates surrounding Sterne's writing.
List of contents
Introduction Part I: Sociality and Sensibility 1. Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne and Male Homosexual Desire 2. Laurence Sterne and the "Sociality" of the Novel
Part II: Feminism/Gender/Sexualities 3. Words for Sex: The Verbal-Sexual Continuum in Tristram Shandy 4. Job's Wife and Sterne's Other Women
Part III: Sterne and the Body 5. "Uncrystalized Flesh and Blood": The Body in Tristram Shandy 6. Running out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction
Part IV: Sources, Imitation, Plagiarism 7. Sterne, Burton, and Ferriar: Allusions to the
Anatomy of Melancholy in Volumes V to IX of Tristram Shandy 8. Sterne's System of Imitation
Part V: Narrative and Form 9. Narrative Middles: a Preliminary Outline 10. On Sterne's Page: Spatial Layout, Spatial Form, and Social Spaces in Tristram Shandy
Notes on authors Further reading Index
About the author
Marcus Walsh is Professor of English Literature at the Univeristy of Birmingham. He has written extensively on Smart, Swift, Johnson and Stern. Publications include
Christopher Smart: Poetical Works Vols I and II, (OUP 1983, 1987), and
Shakespeare, Milton and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing (CUP 1997).
Summary
This volume combines the most interesting and stimulating recent critical thinking about Sterne and represents recent theoretical and critical debates surrounding Sterne's writing.
