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Swiftly sterneward : essays on Laurence Sterne and his times in honor of Melvyn New / edited by W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sterne, Laurence.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University Of Delaware Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of thirteen essays is in honor of the distinguished scholarly career of Melvyn New, Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida. The first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. Subjects include Pope and Eliot, Swift and Nietzsche, Sterne and Gainsborough, Johnson, Smollett, Lyttelton, and Fielding. The final five essays focus specifically on Sterne, the primary subject of Professor New's career of more than four decades. Contributors are both former students and colleagues and come from the United States, England,
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Perspectives on the eighteenth century
- pt. 2. Perspectives on Laurence Sterne.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 1-61149-791-4
- 1-283-03113-2
- 9786613031136
- 1-61149-059-6
- OCLC:
- 710974691
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