Textual and Critical Intersections
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Newbegins by focusing on Sterne's texts and their sources, discussing the purposesof his famous borrowings from past writings, his Anglicanism, and his relianceon John Norris of Bemerton. This section concludes with an argument for theremoval from Sterne's canon of ?The Unknown World.? New then offers severalreadings based on placing diverse texts in proximity: Charles Dickens's Dombeyand Son alongside the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, and Samuel Johnson's ?London?against T. S. Eliot's ?The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.? Thefinal section offers several proximate readings of Sterne alongside hiscontemporaries, Jonathan Swift, Richardson, and Boswell, and modernist authors andtexts?Proust, Bruno Schulz, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and Joyce's APortrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
As he brings these varied authors together, Newsuggests that literary greatness inheres in the uncertainties and mysteries?inthe words of Keats?of works proven capable of attracting thoughtful attention overvarying times and wide spaces. He encourages the continued teaching of thesechallenging texts in the future of literary studies.
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Sterne: Textual Conversations
- 1. Sterne and the Narrative of Determinateness
- 2. The Odd Couple: Laurence Sterne and John Norris of Bemerton
- 3. Laurence Sterne's Sermons and The Pulpit-Fool
- 4. "The Unknown World": The Poem Laurence Sterne Did Not Write
- Digressions in the Manner of Sterne
- 5. Taking Care: A Slightly Levinasian Reading of Dombey and Son
- 6. Johnson, T. S. Eliot, and the City
- Sterne: Critical Conversations
- 7. Reading Sterne through Proust and Levinas
- 8. Sterne and the Modernist Moment
- 9. Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison and Sterne: A Study in Influence
- 10. Boswell and Sterne in 1768
- 11. Single and Double: Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus and Tristram Shandy
- 12. "The Life of a Wit is a warfare upon earth": Sterne, Joyce, and Their Portraits of the Artist
- Coda
- "A Genius of That Cast": Celebrating Sterne
- List of Permissions
- Index
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- About the Author
