Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction - 9781409455837

Taylor & Francis

Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne\u2019s fiction and its adaptations. Placing her examination of Sterneana within the context of its production, Newbould breaks new ground by bringing together several potentially disparate aspects of Sterneana belonging to areas of literary studies as diverse as drama, music, travel writing, sentimental fiction and the visual. > Exploring how readers received and responded to literary works in the long eighteenth century, M-C. Newbould focuses on the role played by Laurence Sterne\u2019s fiction and its adaptations. Literary adaptation flourished throughout the eighteenth century, encouraging an interactive relationship between writers, readers, and artists when well-known works were transformed into new forms across a variety of media. Laurence Sterne offers a particularly dynamic subject: the immense interest provoked by The Life s