Laurence Sterne

by D.W. Jefferson

Despite the immense popularity of Laurence Sterne's work during his lifetime, his contribution to the novel form and experimentalism has only been acknowledged since his death. His contemporaries Richardson and Goldsmith denounced his archaic methods and took offence at his playful irreverence but his oddity is never accidental nor perverse; it is the strategy of an inventive, thoughtful, comic talent. Tristram Shandy (1759), perhaps his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0582010527
• ISBN13: 9780582010529
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 126 Pages