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.

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Publication InfoNewark : University Of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
Descriptionxxiii, 280 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
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Other author/creatorGerard, William Blake.
Other author/creatorTaylor, Derek (E. Derek)
Other author/creatorWalker, Robert G. (Robert Gary), 1947-
Other author/creatorNew, Melvyn.
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.
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ISBN9781611490589 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611490588 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9781611490596 (electronic)
ISBN1611490596 (electronic)

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