The reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe
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The reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe
（The Athlone critical traditions series, . The reception of British authors in Europe ; v. 2）
Thoemmes Continuum, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-317) and index
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Description
Sterne's work has been received, translated and imitated in most European countries with great success. Interest in his life and work grew into a literary cult at an early stage and led to the vogue of sentimentalism: Sterne became a legendary English writer, second only to Shakespeare. Among the topics discussed in this volume are: questions arising from the serial nature of much of Sterne's writings; the various ways in which translators all across Europe coped with the specific problems which the witty and ingenious Sternean text poses; the extent to which especially "A sentimental Journey" was regarded as a provocative political text and was therefore used as a weapon in nationalist movements; how "Tristram Shandy" became a test case for theories of humour and sentiment; how Sterne's texts and the "Letters" were used as didactic tools; how the history of the reception of Sterne mirrors the continental shift from a French cultural paradigm to a German and English one; and how the cult of Maria materialized in prints, paintings and ceramics. Trans-national patterns are emphasized, as are the impact of Sterne on European sentimentalism and modernist narrative theory.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Sterne Crosses the Channel, Peter De Voogd and John Neubauer
- Movements of Sensibility and Sentiment - Sterne in 18th-century France, Lana Asfour
- Romantic to Avant-garde - Sterne in 19th- and 20th-century France, Anne Bandry
- "Sterne-Bilder" - Sterne in the German-speaking World, Duncan Large
- Sterne in the Netherlands, Peter De Voogd
- Sterne's Nordic Presence - Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Paul Goring and Eli Lofaldli
- From Imperial Court to Peasant's Cot - Sterne in Russia - Neil Stewart
- Sterne in Poland, Grazyna Bystydzienska and Wojciech Nowicki
- Conceiving Selves and Others - Sterne and Croatian Culture, Tatjana Jukic
- Sterne in Hungary - Gabriella Hartvig
- The Sentimental, the "Inconclusive", the Digressive - Sterne in Italy - Olivia Santovetti
- Stern'e Arrival in Portugal, Manual Portela
- Sterne Castles in Spain, Sternean Material Culture - Lorenzo's Snuffbox and Sylvio's Grave, W.G. Day
- Shandean Theories of the Novel - from Friedrich Schlegel's German Romanticism to Shklovskii's Russian Formalism, John Neubauer and Neil Stewart.
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