Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a huge literary paradox, for it is both a novel and an anti-novel. As a comic novel replete with bawdy humour and generous sentiments, it introduces us to a vivid group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. As an anti-novel, it is a deliberately tantalising and exuberantly egoistic work, ostentatiously digressive, involving the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. This mercurial eighteenth-century text thus anticipates modernism and postmodernism. Vibrant and bizarre, Tristram Shandy provides an unforgettable experience. We may see why Nietzsche termed Sterne 'the most liberated spirit of all time'.
Melvyn New, professor emeritus of English at the University of Florida, is the editor of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, which includes Tristram Shandy (three volumes), Sterne's sermons (two volumes), and the works Sentimental Journey and Bramine's Journal (Journal to Eliza). He is the author of more than fifty critical writings on Sterne and editor of numerous editions. Peter de Voogd, professor emeritus of English at the University of Utrecht, is the founding editor of The Shandean. The author of numerous essays on Sterne, he is the coeditor of Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism and The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781853262913 |
| ISBN 10 | 1853262919 |
| Title | Tristram Shandy |
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| Series | Wordsworth Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wordsworth Editions Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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