Title: Swiftly sterneward : essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New /
Authors: Gerard, William Blake; Taylor, Derek; Walker, Robert G. 1947-; New, Melvyn
Publisher: University Of Delaware Press ; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Sterne, Laurence, Criticism and interpretation.
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.