Publisher's Synopsis
The eight essays in this collection offer an introduction to Sterne's satiric work "Tristram Shandy". It contains the classic essays on Sterne by D.W. Jefferson and Wayne Booth, Sigurd Burckhardt's play on Sterne and gravity, Frank Brady's analysis of sexuality and sentimentality, and four essays of the 1980s by Elizabeth Harries, Everett Zimmerman, Donald R. Wehrs and Helen Ostovich. This collection is aimed at students of English. Other books by Professor New include "Laurence Sterne as Satirist: A Reading of Tristram Shandy" and "Works of Laurence Sterne".
