Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
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If Fielding showed that the novel (like the traditional epic or drama) could make the chaos of life coherent in art, Sterne only a few years later in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760--67) laughed away the notion of order. In Sterne's world, people are sealed off in their näytä lisää own minds so that only in unpredictable moments of spontaneous feeling are they aware of another human being. Reviewers attacked the obscenity of Tristram's imagined autobiography as it was published (two volumes each in 1759, early 1761, late 1761, 1765, and one in 1767), particularly when the author revealed himself as a clergyman, but the presses teemed with imitations of this great literary hit of the 1760s. Through the mind of the eccentric hero, Sterne subverted accepted ideas on conception, birth, childhood, education, and the contemplation of maturity and death, so that Tristram's concerns touched his contemporaries and are still important. Since Tristram Shandy is patently a great and lasting comic work that yet seems, as E. M. Forster said, "ruled by the Great God Muddle," much recent criticism has centered on the question of its unity or lack of it; and its manipulation of time and of mental processes has been considered particularly relevant to the problems of fiction in our day. Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768) has been immensely admired by some critics for its superb tonal balance of irony and sentiment. His Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760) catches the spirit of its time by dramatically preaching benevolence and sympathy as superior to doctrine. Whether as Tristram or as Yorick, Sterne is probably the most memorably personal voice in eighteenth-century fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal (1768) 39 kappaletta
A sentimental journey through France & Italy: With selections from the journals, sermons & correspondence of Laurence… (1926) 17 kappaletta
Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne, The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, Selected sermons and… (1950) 11 kappaletta
The beauties of Sterne including all his pathetic tales, & most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the… (1782) 9 kappaletta
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Text (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 7 kappaletta
Sterne's memoirs : a hitherto unrecorded holograph now brought to light in facsimile (1985) 7 kappaletta
Werkausgabe: Tristram Shandy - Eine empfindsame Reise - Journal für Elisa - Satiren, Erzählungen, Briefe (2018) 5 kappaletta
A sentimental journey through France and Italy,: Together with The journal to Eliza, Letters to Eliza, (Immortal… (1937) 5 kappaletta
Letters from Yorick to Eliza 4 kappaletta
A Eliza ou quatre-vingt-quinze variations sur un thème sentimental suivi de "L'Eloge d'Eliza Draper"… (1987) 4 kappaletta
The Letters of Laurence Sterne: Part One, 1739–1764 (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (2009) 3 kappaletta
Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne 3 kappaletta
The Case of Hezekiah and the Messengers 3 kappaletta
Tristram Schandis Leben und Meinungen - Band 1-3 3 kappaletta
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 3 kappaletta
A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy: To Which Are Added The Letters To Eliza 3 kappaletta
Sterne : Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne ; The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy ; A sentimental journey ; Selected… 2 kappaletta
A sentimental Yourney & The journal to Eliza 2 kappaletta
Viaggio sentimentale di Yorick lungo la Francia e l'Italia. Testo inglese a fronte (2018) 2 kappaletta
The Works of Laurence Sterne - I. the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (The World's Classics (1910) 2 kappaletta
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman comprising the humorous adventures of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.… (1879) 2 kappaletta
The Miscellaneous Writings and Sterne's Subscribers, an Identification List (Florida Edition of the Works of… (2014) 2 kappaletta
The works of Laurence Sterne. In ten volumes complete. ... With a life of the author, written by himself. ... Volume 9… (2010) 2 kappaletta
En følsom rejse gennem Frankrig og Italien 2 kappaletta
Yorick's meditations upon various interesting and important subjects, viz. Upon nothing. Upon something. Upon the… (2012) 2 kappaletta
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes: Volume 5 of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne (1996) 2 kappaletta
Noricks Predigten Bd. I 1 kappale
Selected Prose and Letters I 1 kappale
Selected Prose and Letters II 1 kappale
Sentimentaalinen matka 1 kappale
The Complete Works And Life Of Laurence Sterne V3: A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy And The Letters Of… (2007) 1 kappale
Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction vol. 3 1 kappale
Dario para Eliza 1 kappale
Laurence Sterne A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Sylvain Sauvage Heritage Press c.1941 — Tekijä — 1 kappale
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (MacDonald Illustrated Classics, Volume 3) (1950) 1 kappale
The Works of Sterne 1 kappale
Noricks Predigten Bd. II 1 kappale
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 1 kappale
Viatge sentimental (volum I) 1 kappale
Sternes Letters to His Friends on Various Occasions To Which is Added His History of A Watch Coat (1775) 1 kappale
Sentimental Journey, A 1 kappale
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 25 November 2015 1 kappale
Saggio di sermoni sacri 1 kappale
Tristram Shandy Gentleman 1 kappale
â„—Il â„—viaggio sentimentale di Yorick 1 kappale
Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. 1 kappale
Un romanzo politico 1 kappale
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Letters of Laurence Sterne Edition De Luxe Vol. I 1 kappale
Tristam Shandys Leben und Meinungen 1 kappale
The Works of Laurence Sterne, vol. III 1 kappale
SterneÕs novels 1 kappale
Tristram Shandy (abridged) 1 kappale
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 24 November 2013 (1992) 1 kappale
Three Books by Laurence Sterne 1 kappale
Novels 1 kappale
Sterne's Sermons 1 kappale
The Works of Laurence Sterne : With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Volume 8. Sermons of Laurence… (1999) 1 kappale
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... To which is added The sentimental journey. With illustrations… (1832) 1 kappale
Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne 1 kappale
Explanatory remarks upon The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy; wherein, the morals and politics of this piece are… (2010) 1 kappale
Yoriks nachgelaßne Werke 1 kappale
LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN 1 kappale
. Conmel, 24/11/1713 - Londres 18/3/1768 1 kappale
The works of Laurence Sterne, comprising Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, and Letters. With a memoir written by… (2011) 1 kappale
The Works Of Sterne, Both Volumes (Life & Opinions, Tristam Shandy, Setimental Journey Through France & Italy, Volume I… (1900) 1 kappale
THE COMPLETE WORKS AND LIFE OF LAURENCE STERNE, VOLUME TWO--THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY IN FOUR VOLUMES,… (1904) 1 kappale
Viatge sentimental (volum II) 1 kappale
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Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: English, Irish (1907) — Avustaja — 10 kappaletta
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The History of Candide, or, All for the Best, with Zadig, or, Destiny an Oriental History, with A Sentimental Journey… (1933) 5 kappaletta
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- Laurence Sterne was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1713, son of an army ensign. During his first ten years the family moved from barracks to barracks. At the age of ten, Laurence went to school in Halifax and later went on to study divinity and classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained into the Church of England as a deacon in 1737 after graduating that year. With the help of his uncle, Dr Jaques Sterne (Precentor of York), he began to make a moderately successful ecclesiastical career. He was ordained priest in 1738 and was granted the living of Sutton-on-the-Forest, to which he added six years later the living of Stillington. He married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741 and had a daughter, Lydia – the only one of his children to survive infancy.
Two of his sermons were published in 1747 and 1750, but the publication of a satirical pamphlet in 1759 displayed his talents as a writer.
The pamphlet, A Political Romance, was suppressed; but it gave Sterne the inspiration for a more ambitious work, and he contacted the London bookseller, Robert Dodsley with the draft of one volume of a work entitled The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Unable to secure a guarantee of publication, Sterne revised the work and in 1759 printed and published the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy by paying for it himself and sending it to London.
Tristram Shandy was an immediate success. Sterne became famous virtually overnight and following the exhibition of his portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds became a celebrity within the first few months of the book's release.
Sterne had already published the first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman when he came to Coxwold in 1760. He wrote the next seven volumes of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy while living at Shandy Hall.
His friends celebrated his success as a writer by christening his new home ‘Shandy Hall', the word Shandy being a dialect word for ‘wild, nonsensical, merry or odd'.
Alterations to the house were made by Sterne including the building of a coach house, a cellar and a box-like two-storey brick façade at the west end.
He had been afflicted all his life with illness, and travelled for his health to France, where his wife and daughter took up residence. In the last years of his life he fell in love with Eliza Draper, and wrote A Journal to Eliza after she returned to India and her husband.
Laurence Sterne died in 1768, and was buried three times: once in the graveyard of St. George's, Hanover Square; again when he was recognized after having been disinterred for anatomists; and finally, when development took place at the London burial ground, his skull and a femur were taken to Coxwold and buried outside the church where he was once the preacher.
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