Laurence Sterne - 9781138162402

Taylor & Francis

Laurence SterneAuthor(s): Marcus Walsh\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138162402, 978-1138162402\nSynopsis\nThe eighteenth century was a period when the modern Novel emerged through the work of writers such as Laurence Sterne [tel], Richardson, Defoe, Fielding and Johnson. However, the writing of Sterne is recognised as influencing modern writing from Joyce and Woolf onwards more than any of the other eighteenth century [url] the last twenty years Sterne's work has become a focus for a flourishing body of work and significant debates in many new and developing areas of literary theory which include gender, sexuality, postmodernism, and deconstruction. Sterne's major novel 'Tristram Shandy' is regarded as deploying a range of 'post-modern literary devices' expected to be found in late twentieth century work rather than in work written in the 1700s. Thisvolume combines the most interesting and stimulating recent c.