Labyrinth of Digressions Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne Early Imitators 1st Edition by Rene Bosch ISBN 9042022914 9789042022911

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ISBN 10: 9042022914 
ISBN 13: 9789042022911
Author: Rene Bosch

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 number of late eighteenth-century imitations, show that Tristram Shandy was initially read against the background of Augustan and Grub-street satire. The earliest imitators harked back to traditions of banter and folklore, bawdy and grotesque humour, pathetic stories and orthodox religiosity, reaffirming a pattern of moral and aesthetic values that was conservative for its time. Philosophical Sentimentalism appears to have been a late development.
It is also argued that, partly because of their bad reputation, some of the authors of forgeries and parodies had a greater influence on the original than the reviewers to whom Sterne is often said to have listened. The imitators followed leads and themes in the first instalments, developing them according to their own conception of Sterne’s project and the reasons for his success. As a consequence, they unintentially put a pressure on Sterne to alter his course, and even to abandon some of the narrative lines and themes he had set out for himself.
The literature section contains a chronological checklist of English eighteenth-century Sterneana.

Labyrinth of Digressions Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne Early Imitators 1st Table of contents:

Preliminary Material
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 1–7
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A Note on References
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 8
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Introduction
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 9–19
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Tristram in Grub Street
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 21–38
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Sterne in Covent-Garden
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 39–57
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Sentiment, or Something Like It
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 58–90
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Impulses
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 91–122
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Nonsense and the Grotesque
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 123–142
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Soldiers
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 143–165
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Women
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 166–194
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Physicians
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 195–222
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Philosophers
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 223–253
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Epilogue: The Waning of the Satirical Age
Author: René Bosch
Pages: 255–280

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