Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 32931370
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108842761
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2021
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph is the first full-length study of Sterne’s visual devices which so define his fiction. The culmination of eight years of archival research across the UK and USA of manuscripts, printed books and ephemera, it presents new readings of Sterne’s works through attention to their material and bibliographical conditions of production. In analysing print materials which have hitherto evaded critical analysis in relation to the novel’s formation and in examining the complex interrelation between a period’s literature and the print matter of everyday life, the book re-defines the origins of Tristram Shandy and the eighteenth-century novel more broadly.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Chapter 1 ‘Hands’ appeared in an earlier form as ‘Sterne’s Manicules: Hands, Handwriting and Authorial Property in Tristram Shandy’ in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 36 (2013). The earlier version was adapted and expanded in order to have it introduce the rest of the monograph. This altered and developed the material markedly in terms of argument and context, turning it from a standalone argument into the foundational theoretical framework for a much broader study.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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