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Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Author: Williams Helen
Offers new readings of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by considering its design features alongside broader developments in eighteenth-century book production.
Language: EnglishApproximative price 30.28 €
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Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Publication date: 06-2023
227 p. · Paperback
Publication date: 06-2023
227 p. · Paperback
Approximative price 102.80 €
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Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
Publication date: 04-2021
217 p. · 23.5x15.5 cm · Hardback
Publication date: 04-2021
217 p. · 23.5x15.5 cm · Hardback
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Scrutinising Sterne's fiction through a book history lens, Helen Williams creates novel readings of his work based on meticulous examination of its material and bibliographical conditions. Alongside multiple editions and manuscripts of Sterne's own letters and works, a panorama of interdisciplinary sources are explored, including dance manuals, letter-writing handbooks, newspaper advertisements, medical pamphlets and disposable packaging. For the first time, this wealth of previously overlooked material is critically analysed in relation to the design history of Tristram Shandy, conceptualising the eighteenth-century novel as an artefact that developed in close conjunction with other media. In examining the complex interrelation between a period's literature and the print matter of everyday life, this study sheds new light on Sterne and eighteenth-century literature by re-defining the origins of his work and of the eighteenth-century novel more broadly, whilst introducing readers to diverse print cultural forms and their production histories.
1. Hands; 2. The Black Page; 3. The Sermon 4. The Marbled Page; 5. Footnotes and Catchwords; 6. Engraved Lines.
Helen Williams is a Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, researching eighteenth-century literature and book history. She has co-edited John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018) and has won a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2019) for her work on the novel in the hand-press period.
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