Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Walter, Toby, Tristram, and the Reader: Sterne’s Revision of “Dullness”
- 2 The Yorick Standard, Walter’s Benevolent Dullness, and Tristram’s Friends: The Plot of Satire in Tristram Shandy
- 3 “True Shandeism”: The Unhappy Comic Action in Tristram Shandy
- 4 Isolation and Death: The Tragic Undertones of Shandean Benevolent Dullness
- 5 Benevolent Dullness, Ambiguity, and the Reader: Modal Complexity and the Plots of Tristram Shandy
- 6 Laurence Sterne’s Letters
- 7 The Shandean Sermons of Parson Sterne
- 8 Parson Yorick in A Sentimental Journey and in A Continuation of Bramine’s Journal
- 9 The International Perspective on Tristram Shandy and the Argument
- References
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Walter, Toby, Tristram, and the Reader: Sterne’s Revision of “Dullness”
- 2 The Yorick Standard, Walter’s Benevolent Dullness, and Tristram’s Friends: The Plot of Satire in Tristram Shandy
- 3 “True Shandeism”: The Unhappy Comic Action in Tristram Shandy
- 4 Isolation and Death: The Tragic Undertones of Shandean Benevolent Dullness
- 5 Benevolent Dullness, Ambiguity, and the Reader: Modal Complexity and the Plots of Tristram Shandy
- 6 Laurence Sterne’s Letters
- 7 The Shandean Sermons of Parson Sterne
- 8 Parson Yorick in A Sentimental Journey and in A Continuation of Bramine’s Journal
- 9 The International Perspective on Tristram Shandy and the Argument
- References
- Index
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- Satire, Comedy and TragedySterne's 'Handles' to <i>Tristram Shandy</i>, pp. i - ivPublisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2023