Laurence Sterne

Name: Laurence Sterne
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne\u2019s life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the successful publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy, to the publication in 1768 of A Sentimental Journey and its author\u2019s death three weeks later. Sterne, a consumptive who knew that he would meet an early death, was determined to pack into his life all the writing, adventure and play he could, believing implicitly \u2018that every time a man smiles, -- but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of Life.\u2019 We see him in his study at Shandy Hall, among the philosophes in Paris, with his family at Toulouse and Montpellier, preaching before the villagers of Coxworld or before the duke of York, and entertaining the bluestockings, the intellectuals, the wits and rakes of 18th century London. We witness Sterne\u2019s struggle, after sailing through the early volumes of Tristram Shandy, to find ways to continue or.