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100 1 _aBosch, René,
_d1962-
245 1 0 _aLabyrinth of digressions :
_bTristram Shandy as perceived and influenced by Sterne's early imitators /
_cRene Bosch ; authorized translation by Piet Verhoeff.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York, NY :
_bRodopi,
_c2007.
300 _a1 online resource (319 pages) :
_billustrations, fascimiles.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCosterus ;
_vnew series, 172
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-312) and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- A Note on References -- Introduction -- Tristram in Grub Street -- Sterne in Covent-Garden -- Sentiment, or Something Like It -- Impulses -- Nonsense and the Grotesque -- Soldiers -- Women -- Physicians -- Philosophers -- Epilogue: The Waning of the Satirical Age -- Bibliography -- Index.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aWith their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers’ hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne’s success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new volumes, critical or ironic pamphlets, and works that in style and title express a congeniality with Tristram Shandy . This study explores these eighteenth-century imitations as indicators of contemporary assumptions about Sterne’s intentions. Comparisons between the original, the first reactions, and a number of late eighteenth-century imitations, show that Tristram Shandy was initially read against the background of Augustan and Grub-street satire. The earliest imitators harked back to traditions of banter and folklore, bawdy and grotesque humour, pathetic stories and orthodox religiosity, reaffirming a pattern of moral and aesthetic values that was conservative for its time. Philosophical Sentimentalism appears to have been a late development. It is also argued that, partly because of their bad reputation, some of the authors of forgeries and parodies had a greater influence on the original than the reviewers to whom Sterne is often said to have listened. The imitators followed leads and themes in the first instalments, developing them according to their own conception of Sterne’s project and the reasons for his success. As a consequence, they unintentially put a pressure on Sterne to alter his course, and even to abandon some of the narrative lines and themes he had set out for himself. The literature section contains a chronological checklist of English eighteenth-century Sterneana.
600 1 0 _aSterne, Laurence,
_d1713-1768.
_tLife and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
600 1 0 _aSterne, Laurence,
_d1713-1768
_xCriticism and interpretation.
600 1 7 _aSterne, Laurence,
_d1713-1768.
_2fast
630 0 7 _aLife and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence)
_2fast
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
700 1 _aVerhoeff, Piet.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aBosch, René, 1962-
_tLabyrinth of digressions.
_dAmsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007
_w(OCoLC)608484147
830 0 _aCosterus New Series
_v172.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205061
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