The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne

by Thomas Keymer

Book Overview

Best known today for the innovative satire and experimental narrative of Tristram Shandy (1759-67), Laurence Sterne was no less famous in his time for A Sentimental Journey (1768) and for his controversial sermons. Sterne spent much of his life as an obscure clergyman in rural Yorkshire. But he brilliantly exploited the sensation achieved with the first instalment of Tristram Shandy to become, by his death in 1768, a fashionable celebrity across Europe...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521614945
• ISBN13: 9780521614948
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.8"