Labyrinth of digressions : Tristram Shandy as perceived and influenced by Sterne's early imitators / / Reńe Bosch ; authorized translation by Piet Verhoeff.
With their appearance during the 1760's, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers’ hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne’s success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new vol...
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| Superior document: | Costerus ; new series, 172 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Costerus ;
new series, 172. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- A Note on References
- Introduction
- Tristram in Grub Street
- Sterne in Covent-Garden
- Sentiment, or Something Like It
- Impulses
- Nonsense and the Grotesque
- Soldiers
- Women
- Physicians
- Philosophers
- Epilogue: The Waning of the Satirical Age
- Bibliography
- Index.