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Swiftly Sterneward : essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New

Title
Swiftly Sterneward : essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New / edited by W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker.
Publication
Newark : University Of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Gerard, William Blake.
  • Taylor, Derek (E. Derek)
  • Walker, Robert G. (Robert Gary), 1947-
  • New, Melvyn.
Description
xxiii, 280 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 24 cm.
Subject
Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768 > Criticism and interpretation
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Selected publications by Melvyn New -- Part I: Perspectives on the eighteenth century -- Alexander Pope, T. S. Eliot, and the fate of poetry / Joseph G. Kronick -- A sentimental journey through Thomas Gainsborough's "cottage-door" paintings / E. Derek Taylor -- Johnson and moral argument: "we talked of the casuistical question..." / Robert G. Walker -- Slavery in Roderick Random / Taylor Corse -- The printing and publication of three folio editions of George Lyttelton's To the memory of a lady lately deceased (1747-1748) / James E. May -- Parson Adams's sermons: Benjamin Hoadly and Henry Fielding / Martha F. Bowden -- Joseph Andrews, realism, and openness / Eric Rothstein -- Satire and the psychology of religion in Swift and Nietzsche / Frank Palmeri -- Part II: Perspectives on Laurence Sterne -- Gershom Scholem's reading of Tristram Shandy / Elizabeth Kraft -- Laurence Sterne, the apostrophe, and American abolitionism, 1788-1831 / W. B. Gerard -- Attribution problems in Sterne's ecclesiastical and secular politickings / W. G. Day -- Sterne and the miracle of the fragment / Madeleine Descargues-Grant -- The centrality of Sterne in the culture of modernity, or Melvyn New and the rewriting of the west / Donald R. Wehrs.
Call Number
JFE 12-690
ISBN
  • 9781611490589 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1611490588 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781611490596 (electronic)
  • 1611490596 (electronic)
LCCN
2010050266
OCLC
YBP 2010050266
Title
Swiftly Sterneward : essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New / edited by W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker.
Imprint
Newark : University Of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Gerard, William Blake.
Taylor, Derek (E. Derek)
Walker, Robert G. (Robert Gary), 1947-
New, Melvyn.
Research Call Number
JFE 12-690
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