Sterne, Laurence
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Sterne, Laurence (1713–68). Novelist and humorist. Son of a low-ranking infantry officer but educated through a cousin's bounty at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he embraced
Locke's philosophy and contracted tuberculosis, Sterne was ordained and collated to a Yorkshire living (1738). Voracious reader, moderately successful rural parson though a persistent philanderer, his satire on local ecclesiastical courts jeopardized preferment but encouraged him to entrust the parish to a curate and concentrate on writing.
Tristram Shandy (1759) prompted both applause and abuse for its sentimentality and salaciousness, though, freeing the novel from straightforward narrative, it has since been seen as begetter of ‘stream-of-consciousness’ writing. Sterne revelled in the literary esteem and social notoriety he found in London, but was forced to forsake England briefly for France for health reasons, this providing material for his
Sentimental Journey (1767). His corpse was exhumed by London resurrectionists but escaped dissection for secret reburial, being finally interred at Coxwold (his last Yorkshire living) in 1969.
A. S. Hargreaves
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Laurence Sterne in France.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Laurence Sterne in France. By LANA ASFOUR. (Continuum...978-0-8264-9542-6. Clearly, Laurence Sterne is a well-travelled figure. As readers...collection of essays, The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe, edited by Peter de Voogd...
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Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne. Ed. by Melvyn New. (Critical...range of different approaches to Laurence Sterne, excluding (fortunately) what...prolific Sterneian output since Laurence Sterne as Satirist: A Reading of...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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All too human; Literary biography; Laurence Sterne.(Books and Arts)(Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/14/2001; 700+ words
; LAURENCE STERNE: A LIFE. AS IAN CAMPBELL ROSS remarks...Arthur H. Cash's two volumes, "Laurence Sterne: The Early and Middle Years" (1975) and "Laurence Sterne: The Later Years" (1986) must have...
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Inexpressible sadness: Sterne's Sermons and the moral inadequacies of politeness in Tristram Shandy.(Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...of low humor and high sentiment, Laurence Sterne's novel not only underlines his...with Christian teachings. (1) Sterne's position on the immorality of...his position as a clergyman that Sterne mounts an engaged resistance to...
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Monday Book: The vicar who wrote to become famous Laurence Sterne: a life by Ian Campbell Ross (Oxford University Press, pounds 25)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/23/2001; ; 700+ words
; LAURENCE STERNE was a late bloomer. He was 48 when the...1759. The book was an instant smash and Sterne loved every minute of the fame that it...who languished in the provinces while Sterne "Shandied it" in the capital, gloating...
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Laurence Sterne and the ethics of sexual difference: chiasmic narration and double desire.
Magazine article from: Christianity and Literature; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...past dozen years," announces Laurence Buell in his introductory essay...individual) feeling heart. (1) Laurence Sterne poses a special problem in terms...divide. While it is true that Sterne's scenes of sentiment feature...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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By Keith Brace: Books: More to Sterne than double entendres and sniggering; Laurence Sterne - A Life. By Ian Campbell Ross (Oxford University Press, pounds 25). By Keith Brace.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 5/12/2001; 700+ words
; ...novelist and all-out eccentric, Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), is the arch...William Wycherly. There was more to Sterne than sniggering, as there was to...immensely influential technique in Sterne's two novels, Tristram Shandy...
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A good idea from... Laurence Sterne
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/5/1999; ; 546 words
; ...That was the insight of the great British novelist, Laurence Sterne (1713- 1768), who in his Tristram Shandy, for...poignant, but rather than expounding on it at length, Laurence Sterne - in one of the most original moves in British literature...
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Laurence Sterne and the visual imagination.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2007; 430 words
; 075465673X Laurence Sterne and the visual imagination. Gerard...comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne's work, Gerard (English, Auburn U.) explores the ability of Sterne's text to inspire the visual imagination...
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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: A Casebook.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 6/22/2007; 541 words
; Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: A Casebook. Thomas...the Casebooks in Criticism is devoted to Sterne's 'relentlessly self-conscious work...genres, traditions, intertexts' looks at Sterne's relation to Swift and the 'sceptical...
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Sterne, Laurence (1713–1768)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
STERNE, LAURENCE (1713 – 1768) STERNE, LAURENCE (1713 – 1768), English novelist. Sterne...Smollett, Tobias . BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Sterne, Laurence. Letters of Laurence Sterne. Edited by Perry Lewis...
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Laurence Sterne
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Laurence Sterne , 1713-68, English author, b. Ireland...transposed chapters, and various digressions. Sterne constantly obtrudes himself into the novel...association of ideas. In Tristram Shandy Sterne enlarged the scope of the novel from the...
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Sterne, Laurence
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Sterne, Laurence (1713–68), educated at...of Tristram Shandy appeared. Meanwhile Sterne's health was deteriorating steadily...his wife and daughter left for France. Sterne returned alone to England in 1764, and...
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Joseph Nollekens
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Among his famous busts are those of George III, the younger Pitt, Charles James Fox (1792, private coll.), Laurence Sterne (1766, National Portrait Gall., London), and Benjamin West. His numerous statues and groups in marble include...
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Wilbur Lucius Cross
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...known as a literary critic, edited the Yale Review for almost 30 years, and was the author of The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne (1909), The History of Henry Fielding (1918), and books on the English novel. After he retired (1930) from...
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