Sentence:  The final volume, moreover, contains a highly self-conscious, <WSD>Sternian</WSD> passage suggesting that the work was interrupted by some political misfortune befalling the narrator: the latter's uncle, Jean-Claude Ann'Quin Bredouille, has decided to burn the remaining  memoirs and to return to his village. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or relating to (Laurence Sterne), Irish novelist.