Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey

A Legacy to the World

W. B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould (Eds.)

2021
286 pages
$38.95
ISBN 9781684482764
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Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne's Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but - unlike Tristram Shandy - to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that much-needed gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne's novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey's reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne's career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.

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Reviews

"Indeed the present volume, 'bringing A Sentimental Journey center stage' should definitely find its place alongside the 'remarkable resources' in every good library."
- Anne Bandry-Scubbi, in XVII-XVIII: Revue de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe etXVIIIe siècles, December 2021

"The strength of the resulting volume lies not only in the constituent essays, but also in the intelligence and creativity with which Newbould and Gerard have disposed and framed them, setting them in constantly illuminating conversation with one another. In their expert editorial hands, A Sentimental Journey has never looked so rich in imaginative implication and interpretative possibility."
- Thomas Keymer, in The Shandean, November 2021

"This collection brings together a group of distinguished Sterne scholars whose focus on the author's final publication demonstrates the way new questions, new methodologies, new pairings, and new contexts can invigorate our understanding of Sterne, his world, and his work."
- Elizabeth Kraft, author of Laurence Sterne Revisited

"The prime virtue of this collection is that it combines more traditional literary approaches with more recent models of literary scholarship, influenced by affect theory, gender studies, animal studies, and thing theory. As such, it stands as a valuable snapshot of Sterne studies in the present."
- Jesse Molesworth, author of Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic

About the editors:

W. B. Gerard teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama. He is the author of Laurence Sterne and the Visual Imagination, editor of Divine Rhetoric: Essays on the Sermons of Laurence Sterne, and co-editor of Laurence Sterne's Miscellaneous Writings. He also edits The Scriblerian and THAT Literary Review.

M-C. Newbould teaches English at the University of Cambridge in UK, where she is a fellow of Wolfson College. Her publication Adaptations of Laurence Sterne's Fiction: Sterneana, 1760-1840 covers the numerous creative responses that Sterne's work inspired. This material forms the basis for a digitization project she is running with Cambridge University Library.

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