Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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• Chronology; Introduction Thomas Keymer; 1. Laurence Sterne's life, milieu, and literary career Ian Campbell Ross; 2. Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the 'Rabelaisian Fragment', and the origins of Tristram Shandy Marcus Walsh; 3. Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge Judith Hawley; 4. Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative Robert Folkenflik; 5. The Sermons of Mr Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart Tim Parnell; 6. A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling Thomas Keymer; 7. Sterne's 'politicks', Ireland, and evil speaking Carol Watts; 8. Words, sex, and gender in Sterne's novels Elizabeth W. Harries; 9. Sterne and print culture Christopher Fanning; 10. Sterne and visual culture Peter de Voogd; 11. Sterne and the Modernist moment Melvyn New; 12. Postcolonial Sterne Donald R. Wehrs; Further reading; Index.

Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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• Chronology; Introduction Thomas Keymer; 1. Laurence Sterne's life, milieu, and literary career Ian Campbell Ross; 2. Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the 'Rabelaisian Fragment', and the origins of Tristram Shandy Marcus Walsh; 3. Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge Judith Hawley; 4. Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative Robert Folkenflik; 5. The Sermons of Mr Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart Tim Parnell; 6. A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling Thomas Keymer; 7. Sterne's 'politicks', Ireland, and evil speaking Carol Watts; 8. Words, sex, and gender in Sterne's novels Elizabeth W. Harries; 9. Sterne and print culture Christopher Fanning; 10. Sterne and visual culture Peter de Voogd; 11. Sterne and the Modernist moment Melvyn New; 12. Postcolonial Sterne Donald R. Wehrs; Further reading; Index.

Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

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• Chronology; Introduction Thomas Keymer; 1. Laurence Sterne's life, milieu, and literary career Ian Campbell Ross; 2. Scriblerian satire, A Political Romance, the 'Rabelaisian Fragment', and the origins of Tristram Shandy Marcus Walsh; 3. Tristram Shandy, learned wit, and Enlightenment knowledge Judith Hawley; 4. Tristram Shandy and eighteenth-century narrative Robert Folkenflik; 5. The Sermons of Mr Yorick: the commonplace and the rhetoric of the heart Tim Parnell; 6. A Sentimental Journey and the failure of feeling Thomas Keymer; 7. Sterne's 'politicks', Ireland, and evil speaking Carol Watts; 8. Words, sex, and gender in Sterne's novels Elizabeth W. Harries; 9. Sterne and print culture Christopher Fanning; 10. Sterne and visual culture Peter de Voogd; 11. Sterne and the Modernist moment Melvyn New; 12. Postcolonial Sterne Donald R. Wehrs; Further reading; Index.