Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Autor(a) de The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
About the Author
If Fielding showed that the novel (like the traditional epic or drama) could make the chaos of life coherent in art, Sterne only a few years later in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760--67) laughed away the notion of order. In Sterne's world, people are sealed off in their mostrar mais own minds so that only in unpredictable moments of spontaneous feeling are they aware of another human being. Reviewers attacked the obscenity of Tristram's imagined autobiography as it was published (two volumes each in 1759, early 1761, late 1761, 1765, and one in 1767), particularly when the author revealed himself as a clergyman, but the presses teemed with imitations of this great literary hit of the 1760s. Through the mind of the eccentric hero, Sterne subverted accepted ideas on conception, birth, childhood, education, and the contemplation of maturity and death, so that Tristram's concerns touched his contemporaries and are still important. Since Tristram Shandy is patently a great and lasting comic work that yet seems, as E. M. Forster said, "ruled by the Great God Muddle," much recent criticism has centered on the question of its unity or lack of it; and its manipulation of time and of mental processes has been considered particularly relevant to the problems of fiction in our day. Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768) has been immensely admired by some critics for its superb tonal balance of irony and sentiment. His Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760) catches the spirit of its time by dramatically preaching benevolence and sympathy as superior to doctrine. Whether as Tristram or as Yorick, Sterne is probably the most memorably personal voice in eighteenth-century fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal (1768) 39 exemplares
A sentimental journey through France & Italy: With selections from the journals, sermons & correspondence of Laurence… (1926) 17 exemplares
Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne, The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, Selected sermons and… (1950) 11 exemplares
The beauties of Sterne including all his pathetic tales, & most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the… (1782) 9 exemplares
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Text (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 8 exemplares
Sterne's memoirs : a hitherto unrecorded holograph now brought to light in facsimile (1985) 7 exemplares
Werkausgabe: Tristram Shandy - Eine empfindsame Reise - Journal für Elisa - Satiren, Erzählungen, Briefe (2018) 5 exemplares
A sentimental journey through France and Italy,: Together with The journal to Eliza, Letters to Eliza, (Immortal… (1937) 5 exemplares
The Letters of Laurence Sterne: Part One, 1739–1764 (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (2009) 4 exemplares
A Eliza ou quatre-vingt-quinze variations sur un thème sentimental suivi de "L'Eloge d'Eliza Draper"… (1987) 4 exemplares
Letters from Yorick to Eliza 4 exemplares
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 3 exemplares
A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy: To Which Are Added The Letters To Eliza 3 exemplares
Tristram Schandis Leben und Meinungen - Band 1-3 3 exemplares
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes: Volume 5 of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne (1996) 3 exemplares
The Case of Hezekiah and the Messengers 3 exemplares
Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne 3 exemplares
The Miscellaneous Writings and Sterne's Subscribers, an Identification List (Florida Edition of the Works of… (2014) 3 exemplares
En følsom rejse gennem Frankrig og Italien 2 exemplares
Sterne : Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne ; The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy ; A sentimental journey ; Selected… 2 exemplares
A sentimental Yourney & The journal to Eliza 2 exemplares
The works of Laurence Sterne. In ten volumes complete. ... With a life of the author, written by himself. ... Volume 9… (2010) 2 exemplares
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman comprising the humorous adventures of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.… (1879) 2 exemplares
Viaggio sentimentale di Yorick lungo la Francia e l'Italia. Testo inglese a fronte (2018) 2 exemplares
The Works of Laurence Sterne - I. the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (The World's Classics (1910) 2 exemplares
Yorick's meditations upon various interesting and important subjects, viz. Upon nothing. Upon something. Upon the… (2012) 2 exemplares
â„—Il â„—viaggio sentimentale di Yorick 1 exemplar
Laurence Sterne A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Sylvain Sauvage Heritage Press c.1941 — Autor — 1 exemplar
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 25 November 2015 1 exemplar
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (MacDonald Illustrated Classics, Volume 3) (1950) 1 exemplar
Sentimental Journey, A 1 exemplar
The Works of Sterne 1 exemplar
Sternes Letters to His Friends on Various Occasions To Which is Added His History of A Watch Coat (1775) 1 exemplar
La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy 1 exemplar
Tristam Shandys Leben und Meinungen 1 exemplar
The Works of Laurence Sterne, vol. III 1 exemplar
The Works of Laurence Sterne : With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Volume 8. Sermons of Laurence… (1999) 1 exemplar
Explanatory remarks upon The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy; wherein, the morals and politics of this piece are… (2010) 1 exemplar
Viatge sentimental (volum I) 1 exemplar
Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. 1 exemplar
Noricks Predigten Bd. II 1 exemplar
Noricks Predigten Bd. I 1 exemplar
Un romanzo politico 1 exemplar
Sentimentaalinen matka 1 exemplar
Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction vol. 3 1 exemplar
Dario para Eliza 1 exemplar
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 1 exemplar
Tristram Shandy Gentleman 1 exemplar
Yoriks nachgelaßne Werke 1 exemplar
Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne 1 exemplar
Three Books by Laurence Sterne 1 exemplar
Selected prose and letters Volume 1 and 2 1 exemplar
The Complete Works And Life Of Laurence Sterne V3: A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy And The Letters Of… (2007) 1 exemplar
Selected Prose and Letters II 1 exemplar
Selected Prose and Letters I 1 exemplar
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Letters of Laurence Sterne Edition De Luxe Vol. I 1 exemplar
LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN 1 exemplar
THE COMPLETE WORKS AND LIFE OF LAURENCE STERNE, VOLUME TWO--THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY IN FOUR VOLUMES,… (1904) 1 exemplar
. Conmel, 24/11/1713 - Londres 18/3/1768 1 exemplar
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... To which is added The sentimental journey. With illustrations… (1832) 1 exemplar
The works of Laurence Sterne, comprising Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, and Letters. With a memoir written by… (2011) 1 exemplar
The Works Of Sterne, Both Volumes (Life & Opinions, Tristam Shandy, Setimental Journey Through France & Italy, Volume I… (1900) 1 exemplar
Sterne's Sermons 1 exemplar
Novels 1 exemplar
SterneÕs novels 1 exemplar
Tristram Shandy (abridged) 1 exemplar
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 24 November 2013 (1992) 1 exemplar
Viatge sentimental (volum II) 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories: English, Irish (1907) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The History of Candide, or, All for the Best, with Zadig, or, Destiny an Oriental History, with A Sentimental Journey… (1933) 5 exemplares
Anthology of Romanticism Volume Two: Selections From The Pre-Romantic Movement — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Sterne, Laurence
- Data de nascimento
- 1713-11-24
- Data de falecimento
- 1768-03-18
- Localização do túmulo
- St. Michael's Churchyard, Coxwold, Yorkshire, England, UK (reinterred 1969)
St. George's Churchyard, Hanover Square, London, England, UK - Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland (birth)
England - Local de nascimento
- Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
- Local de falecimento
- London, England
- Causa da morte
- tuberculosis
- Locais de residência
- Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Educação
- Jesus College, Cambridge University (BA|1737|MA|1740)
- Ocupações
- Anglican Cleric (Deacon, 1737|Priest, 1738)
Novelist - Organizações
- Church of England
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Laurence Sterne was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1713, son of an army ensign. During his first ten years the family moved from barracks to barracks. At the age of ten, Laurence went to school in Halifax and later went on to study divinity and classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained into the Church of England as a deacon in 1737 after graduating that year. With the help of his uncle, Dr Jaques Sterne (Precentor of York), he began to make a moderately successful ecclesiastical career. He was ordained priest in 1738 and was granted the living of Sutton-on-the-Forest, to which he added six years later the living of Stillington. He married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741 and had a daughter, Lydia – the only one of his children to survive infancy.
Two of his sermons were published in 1747 and 1750, but the publication of a satirical pamphlet in 1759 displayed his talents as a writer.
The pamphlet, A Political Romance, was suppressed; but it gave Sterne the inspiration for a more ambitious work, and he contacted the London bookseller, Robert Dodsley with the draft of one volume of a work entitled The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Unable to secure a guarantee of publication, Sterne revised the work and in 1759 printed and published the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy by paying for it himself and sending it to London.
Tristram Shandy was an immediate success. Sterne became famous virtually overnight and following the exhibition of his portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds became a celebrity within the first few months of the book's release.
Sterne had already published the first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman when he came to Coxwold in 1760. He wrote the next seven volumes of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy while living at Shandy Hall.
His friends celebrated his success as a writer by christening his new home ‘Shandy Hall', the word Shandy being a dialect word for ‘wild, nonsensical, merry or odd'.
Alterations to the house were made by Sterne including the building of a coach house, a cellar and a box-like two-storey brick façade at the west end.
He had been afflicted all his life with illness, and travelled for his health to France, where his wife and daughter took up residence. In the last years of his life he fell in love with Eliza Draper, and wrote A Journal to Eliza after she returned to India and her husband.
Laurence Sterne died in 1768, and was buried three times: once in the graveyard of St. George's, Hanover Square; again when he was recognized after having been disinterred for anatomists; and finally, when development took place at the London burial ground, his skull and a femur were taken to Coxwold and buried outside the church where he was once the preacher.
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EstatÃsticas
- Obras
- 187
- Also by
- 17
- Membros
- 11,369
- Popularidade
- #2,068
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- CrÃticas
- 155
- ISBN
- 484
- LÃnguas
- 20
- Marcado como favorito
- 69
I first read Tristram Shandy when I was 23, more than thirty years ago, and still have the slightly mildewed paperback that I picked up off a Cambridge bookstall one day in late 1990. I can’t honestly tell you what happens in it; I can’t find any particular lines that resonate or are very quotable; the most memorable moment is when our hero’s penis gets caught in the windowframe in Book 5 Chapter 17. (Sorry for the spoiler.)
And yet somehow I love it. It’s rambling, self-indulgent, full of references to things I know nothing about; and at the same time the stream-of-consciousness narrative, the refusal to make many concessions to the reader who wants to know what is actually going on, are part of the charm. It’s clearly an inspiration for Joyce, Woolf, and lots of the modernist writers who I really like; but it’s a book of its own time, requiring friendly engagement and repaying that engagement with warmth and humour.… (mais)