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...
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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
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Sterne and 'Theory'; Sterne and 'Theory' in the twentieth century; Sterne and 'Theory' in the 1980s and 1990s; This selection; PART ONE Sociality and Sensibility; 1 'Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne and Male Homosocial Desire'; 2 'Laurence Sterne and the "Sociality" of the Novel'; PART TWO Feminism/Gender/Sexualities; 3 'Words for Sex: The Verbal-Sexual Continuum in Tristram Shandy'; 4 'Job's Wife and Sterne's other Women'; PART THREE Sterne and the Body
5 '"Uncrystallized Flesh and Blood" : The Body in Tristram Shandy'6 'Running Out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction'; PART FOUR 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 FIVE 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
