Tristram Shandy: A Norton Critical Edition (Norton Critical Editions): 0 - Softcover

Laurence Sterne; Judith Hawley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393921360 ISBN 13: 9780393921366

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

Synopsis

This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The first London edition (1759) of Sterne's revolutionary and influential novel. * Textual notes, explanatory footnotes and a preface by Judith Hawley. * The Author on the Novel, fourteen judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarly edition. * A wide range of early responses that demonstrate Tristram Shandy's changing reception from its publication through the nineteenth century. * Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new to this edition. * A Chronology of Laurence Sterne's life and work and a Selected Bibliography. About the Series: Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for text and accompanying critical and supporting materials that are perfect for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated text, contexts, and criticism-helps students to understand, analyse, and appreciate the literature, whilst opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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Review:

"A lot of nonsense is written about Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" -- and that's just as well. It would be depressing in the extreme if this triumphant tangling up of the threads of reason with the strands of linear narrative were to admit of any effective unravelling; which is as much to say, that were you to find yourself picking apart a lucid, non-discursive exposition of the novel - its themes, its techniques, its plot -- you would know that you had finally gone mad." -- Will Self

Book Description:

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0393921360
• ISBN 13: 9780393921366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1