Swiftly Sterneward Essays on Laurence Sterne and His Times in Honor of Melvyn New

by Gerard, W. B.; Taylor, E Derek; Walker, Robert G.; Kronick, Joseph G.; Corse, Taylor; May, James E.; Bowden, Martha F.; Rothstein, Eric; Palmeri, Frank; Kraft, Elizabeth; Day, W G.; Descargues-Grant, Madeleine; Wehrs, Donald R.

• ISBN13: 9781611490589
• ISBN10: 1611490588
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-07
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press

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, and France. They are Martha F. Bowden, Taylor Corse, W. G Day, Madeleine Descargues-Grant, Elizabeth Kraft, Joseph G. Kronick, James E. May, Frank Palmeri, Eric Rothstein, Donald R. Wehrs, and the three co-editors, W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Selected Publications	p. xix
Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
Alexander Pope, T. S. Eliot, and the Fate of Poetry	p. 3
A Sentimental Journey through Thomas Gainsborough's ôCottage-doorö Paintings	p. 29
Johnson and Moral Argument: ôWe talked of the casuistical question…ö	p. 47
Slavery in Roderick Random	p. 73
The Printing and Publication of Three Folio Editions of George Lyttelton's To the Memory of a Lady Lately Deceased (1747-1748)	p. 85
Parson Adams's Sermons: Benjamin Hoadly and Henry Fielding	p. 111
Joseph Andrews, Realism, and Openness	p. 129
Satire and the Psychology of Religion in Swift and Nietzsche	p. 143
Perspectives on Laurence Sterne
Gershom Scholem's Reading of Tristram Shandy	p. 163
Laurence Sterne, the Apostrophe, and American Abolitionism, 1788-1831	p. 181
Attribution Problems in Sterne's Ecclesiastical and Secular Politickings	p. 207
Sterne and the Miracle of the Fragment	p. 223
The Centrality of Sterne in the Culture of Modernity, or Melvyn New and the Rewriting of the West	p. 245
Index	p. 269
About the Contributors	p. 277
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