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...Christopher Fanning W. B. Gerard. Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination (Aldershot: Ashhgate, 2006). Pp. 251. 47 ills. $99.95. ISBN 978-0-7456-5673-9 Duke University Press 2008 Review Essay Illustrating Sterne...

...Howard D. Weinbrot The stern royalist Act of 12 Car. 2, c.30 in 1662 reprobated the “abominable” regicide of Charles I on 30 January 1649 (n.s.). The act mandated that on every 30 January every Anglican church or chapel in every parish in British dominions should read a sermon deploring the murder...

...Brian Michael Norton Gerard W. B. ., ed. Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne . ( Newark : Univ. of Delaware , 2010 ). Pp. 284 . CD enclosed . $62.50 Gerard W. B. , Taylor Derek , and Walker Robert G. ., eds. Swiftly Sterneward: Essays...

...Elizabeth Kraft Laurence Sterne. “A Sentimental Journey” and “Continuation of the Bramine's Journal” with Related Texts , ed. Melvyn New and W. G. Day (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006). Pp. 252. $7.95 paper. ISBN 0-87220-800-1 Laurence Sterne's “Tristram Shandy”: A Casebook , ed. Thomas Keymer...

...Melvyn New Because Laurence Sterne suggested that sermons should come from the heart and should be practical rather than polemical, his own sermons have often been read as products of a sentimental and secular midcentury ethos, moral essays without theological meaning. However, the appearance...

...John Richardson This essay examines Tristram Shandy in the context of philosophers and thinkers such as Hume, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson, focusing on how the novel represents war, and how it raises questions about sympathetic responses to war. I will argue that Sterne is concerned...

... of the writing: a prose style slowly boiled down into sublime puree, imbued with semi-colons functioning as dramatic dashes—as they do in Sterne and Pound—so that it reads like poetry in prose. The entire work, despite huge flashbacks and nonlinear time patterns...

... Cynthia Wall University of Virginia Lynn Festa. Sentimental Figures of Empire in Eighteenth-Century Britain and France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2006). Pp. 300. $55. ISBN 0-8018-8430-6 J Laurence Sterne’s village midwife...

... (staged for spectators) and to Sarah Fielding’s Remarks on Clarissa with its instructions for how to read the novel (175). Goring lets Laurence Sterne have the final word, and his status as both a clergyman and novelist makes him the perfect spokesperson for a book that begins by discussing...

... of absurdity, but it confirms Sterne’s construction of Tristram’s father, Walter, as an imprac- tical theorizer far detached from the realities of human need; of the med- ical profession as a pack of gnomic bunglers; and of his readers as sensible people like Uncle...

... the new form s reliance on particulars of experience and pedagogical aspirations. The problem was that fictional creations were seen as incapable of providing lessons on the world of particular facts and actual events (23). According to Maioli, Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Laurence Sterne, William Godwin...

... genres of drama and non-fictional prose” (9). Havens organizes the book by canonical authors Samuel Richardson, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, and Maria Edgeworth—with a final chapter on Laurence Sterne, Matthew Lewis, and William Godwin. The strengths of this organization are many: the chapters...

... as he reassembles the links in the “chain of sentimental modernity” (143). The marquee players in his story are Frank Capra and Laurence Sterne, joined by a large and eclectic supporting cast, including Adam Smith, Friedrich Schiller, William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, D. W...

... intellectual and physical meaningsÐ seizes on the unavoidable “aporia” confronted when attempting to capture “ideal origins in arrangements of material things,” ranging from Lau- rence Sterne’s blank sheet of paper to William Hunter’s manual on obstetric anatomy (196). In the background of Silver’s...

... feature in the writers studied and as an indispensable way of studying them. As Judith Hawley observed of Fielding and Sterne, history is “something that is not yet set in stone, . . . not yet fixed.” Sterne, for instance, in reconstructing Uncle Toby’s battles, “loosens his purchase on history...

... Macmillan, 2014). Pp. vii + 234. $90 Stein, Perrin. Artists and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenthh-Century France (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013). Pp. viii + 231. 197 color ills. $60 Stern, Philip J., and Carl Wennerlind, eds. Mercantilism Reimagined: Political Economy...

... a human subject while trying to create a monster” (167). Read in relation to a history of naturalization, the novel thus relies less on notions of interiority for identity. It also comes to rely less on interior spaces. Turning to the last novels of Smollett, Richardson, Sterne, and Burney in chapter...

... prominence in the eighteenth century finds a complex and suggestive outlet in the figure of the ruin, which flaunts what it lacks as precisely the grounds of its authority and moral superiority. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Brodey offers close and compelling readings of Goethe and Sterne. Both...

...). This is interesting; the frustrated (and funny) efforts of Laurence Sterne’s characters to shape their lives, and Tristram his Life, critique the heroic adequacy of earlier characters, and certainly are offset by the lively narrative voice. But Sterne’s place in the history of the novel has as much to do...

... in Britain — in the benevolent deism of Thomson, the bourgeois morality of Richardson, the 120 Eighteenth-Century Life reformist novels of Sarah Scott and Sarah Fielding, or the comic-erotic aes- thetics of Sterne — determines how one defines its longer trajectory. For Nagle, sensibility begins...