Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book

AvHelen Williams

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Scrutinising Sterne's fiction through a book history lens, Helen Williams creates novel readings of his work based on meticulous examination of its material and bibliographical conditions. Alongside multiple editions and manuscripts of Sterne's own letters and works, a panorama of interdisciplinary sources are explored, including dance manuals, letter-writing handbooks, newspaper advertisements, medical pamphlets and disposable packaging. For the first time, this wealth of previously overlooked material is critically analysed in relation to the design history of Tristram Shandy, conceptualising the eighteenth-century novel as an artefact that developed in close conjunction with other media. In examining the complex interrelation between a period's literature and the print matter of everyday life, this study sheds new light on Sterne and eighteenth-century literature by re-defining the origins of his work and of the eighteenth-century novel more broadly, whilst introducing readers to diverse print cultural forms and their production histories.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-04-01
Mått:235 x 155 x 20 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:228
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108842761

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Helen Williams is a Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, researching eighteenth-century literature and book history. She has co-edited John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018) and has won a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2019) for her work on the novel in the hand-press period.

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'In Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book, Helen Williams has written a careful, scholarly study of lasting value about Sterne as a book designer. No one has yet attempted so thorough and meticulous a study of Sterne's 'graphic and typographic ingenuity'. His audacious blank, black and marbled pages are placed in the context of other printed design materials -'print sources beyond the novel'. What Thomas Keymer did for Tristram Shandy's context of writing-identifying the antecedents for what seems'post-modern' in Tristram's floating world-Williams has done for the physical design of first editions of the book.' TLS Reviews

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1. Hands; 2. The Black Page; 3. The Sermon 4. The Marbled Page; 5. Footnotes and Catchwords; 6. Engraved Lines.

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