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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2007.
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| Colección: | Costerus ;
new ser., v. 172. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 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 numb. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (319 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-312) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435612914 1435612914 9789401205061 940120506X 1282265695 9781282265691 9786612265693 6612265698 |