1st Edition

Laurence Sterne The Critical Heritage

Edited By Alan B. Howes Copyright 1996
    512 Pages
    by Routledge

    512 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.

    Part 1 TRISTRAM SHANDY; Chapter 1 The composition of Tristram Shandy, vols I, II; Chapter 2 Sterne to his readers; Chapter 3 Sterne promotes his book 1 January 1760; Chapter 4 William Kenrick: the first review of Tristram Shandy January 1760; Chapter 5 Sterne defends Tristram Shandy 30 January 1760; Chapter 6 Reviews in the magazines January-February 1760; Chapter 7 Lord praises Sterne Spring 1760; Chapter 8 Horace Walpole on Tristram Shandy 4 April 1760; Chapter 9 The design of Tristram Shandy March-April 1760; Chapter 10 The serious attacks Spring 1760; Chapter 11 The bantering attacks Spring 1760; Chapter 12 The first biography of Sterne 1 May 1760; Chapter 13 The Sermons of Mr Yorick, vols I and II Spring and summer 1760; Chapter 14 Boswell on Sterne Spring 1760; Chapter 15 Sterne as Juvenilian satirist 1 June 1760; Chapter 16 Sterne and Bishop Warburton June 1760; Chapter 17 - Thomas Gray on Sterne c 20 June 1760; Chapter 18 Lady Bradshaigh on Sterne June 1760; Chapter 19 Goldsmith attacks Sterne 30 June 1760; Chapter 20 Sterne and the Monthly reviewers June 1760; Chapter 21 Attack on Sterne and the Methodists July 1760; Chapter 22 Sterne and an appreciative reader Summer 1760; Chapter 23 Horace Mann on Sterne's ‘humbugging’ 1 November 1760; Chapter 24 Tristram Shandy as satire 1760; Chapter 25 Edmund Burke on Tristram Shandy 1760; Part 2 TRISTRAM SHANDY vols III, IV (1761); Chapter 26 The composition of Tristram Shandy, vols III, IV 1760; Chapter 27 Sterne to his critics and his readers: TristramShandy, vols III and IV; Chapter 28 Reviews of Tristram Shandy, vols III, IV; Chapter 29 Samuel Richardson on Sterne January-February 1761; Chapter 30 Some private opinions February-June 1761; Chapter 31 A mock funeral discourse October 1761; Part 3 TRISTRAM SHANDY vols V, VI (1761); Chapter 32 The composition of Tristram Shandy, vols V, VI; Chapter 33 Sterne to his readers: Tristram Shandy, vols V and VI 1761; Chapter 34 Assessments of Tristram Shandy, vols V and VI 1

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    Alan B. Howes