Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8-11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne may well be the most internationally accepted of all eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a sentimental traveler. This collection recognizes three faces of Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining, respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of literary studies-a return to aesthetics.
List of Short Titles Introduction Pat Rogers Sterne 1. Small Particles of Fame: Subjectivity, Celebrity, Sterne Thomas Keymer 2. Bohemian Sterne Elizabeth Kraft 3. Political Sterne John Owen Havard 4. Laurence Sterne and Common Sense: Discursive Shifts in Eighteenth-Century English Culture Christoph Henke Tristram 5. Anarchic Signification and Motions of Grace in Sterne's Novelistic Satire Donald R. Wehrs6. Sterne's "Little Gentleman": Tristram Shandy and the Male Participant in Childbirth Ashleigh Blackwood7. Every Jerkin Has a Quicksilver Lining: Tristram's Rumpled Dualisms Robert Chibka 8. Dolly's Inch of Red Seal Wax, or, Impressing the Reader in Tristram Shandy Amelia Dale 9. Fray Gerundio de Campazas and Tristram Shandy: Convergent Cervantine Novels? Artem Serebrennikov Yorick 10. Yorick's Ethnographic Journey Ray McDermott 11. The Masquerade Metaphor and the Paradoxes of Sentiment in A Sentimental Journey Jakub Lipski 12. The Poetics of the Passport in A Sentimental Journey Stephanie DeGooyer 13. Laurence Sterne and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life Brian Michael Norton Works Cited Contributors Index
