Re-Envisioning an Eighteenth-Century Artifact: A Postmodern Reading of Tristram Shandy
Description:
The interjection of a new and dynamically different reading of Lawrence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is imperative, if scholars want to clearly see many of the hidden facets of the novel that have gone unexamined because of out-dated scholarship. Ian Watt’s assumption that Sterne “would probably have been the supreme figure among eighteenth-century novelists” (291) if he had not tried to be so odd, and the conclusion that he draws, that “Tristram Shandy is not so much a novel as a parody of a novel…
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Date:
August 2011
Creator:
Burns, Anthony Louis
Partner:
UNT Libraries