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Labyrinth of digressions : Tristram Shandy as perceived and influenced by Sterne's early imitators /

With 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 spuriou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bosch, René, 1962-
Otros Autores: Verhoeff, Piet
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Dutch
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Costerus ; new ser., v. 172.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Labyrinth of Digressions; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; A Note on References; Introduction; PART ONE: POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS; Chapter One: Tristram in Grub Street; Chapter Two: Sterne in Covent-Garden; Chapter Three: Sentiment, or Something Like It; PART TWO: CONTAMINATION; Chapter Four: Impulses; Chapter Five: Nonsense and the Grotesque; PART THREE: SHIFTING THEMES; Chapter Six: Soldiers; Chapter Seven: Women; Chapter Eight: Physicians; Chapter Nine: Philosophers; Epilogue: The Waning of the Satirical Age; Bibliography; Index.