Swiftly Sterneward: essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New 9781611490589, 9781611490596, 1611490588, 1611490596

Selected publications by Melvyn New -- Part I: Perspectives on the eighteenth century -- Alexander Pope, T.S. Eliot, and

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Swiftly Sterneward: essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New
 9781611490589, 9781611490596, 1611490588, 1611490596

Table of 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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