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ISBN
9780192122353
Publication Year
2001
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Laurence Sterne: a Life
Item Height
234mm
Author
Ian Campbell Ross
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Literature
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
863g
Number of Pages
450 Pages

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Laurence Sterne was in his mid-forties when the publication of Tristram Shandy catapulted him from obscurity into unprecedented literary fame. The story of how a provincial clergyman became the most fashionable writer of his day is extraordinary, and all the more remarkable for having been engineered by its subject. I wrote not to be fed, but to be famous , Laurence Sterne declared of his comic masterpiece, and in order to achieve his ambition he became an assiduous networker, as astute a self-publicist as any modern author could hope to be. Shocked critics of Tristram Shandy denounced his bawdy novel as a scandal to the cloth, but Sterne revelled in the celebrity his age's obsession with novelty and fashion allowed him. He at last found compensation for a life characterized by alternating moods of gaiety and gloom. Unhappily married to a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown and at one time believed herself to be the Queen of Bohemia, Sterne became notorious for his sexual and sentimental liaisons with other women. His second book, A Sentimental Journey , transmuted his experiences into literary expressions of moral feeling. Dependent for so much of his life on patrons, it was the patronage of the reading public that was to secure his livelihood. Tristram Shandy remains one of the most innovative and influential novels in world literature, and Ian Campbell Ross makes full use of available materials to examine Sterne's life and career and the cult of the celebrity author.

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Oxford University Press
ISBN-13
9780192122353
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Book Title
Laurence Sterne: a Life
Author
Ian Campbell Ross
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
450 Pages

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Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
863g

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Ian Campbell Ross
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United Kingdom

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