Beschreibung:
“This new edition of Tristram expands commentary by the great early novelists and by today’s most influential critics.” ―Paula Backscheider, Auburn University. This Norton Critical Edition includes: · The first London edition (1759) of Sterne’s revolutionary and influential novel. · Textual notes, explanatory footnotes, and a preface by Judith Hawley. · Three illustrations. · The Author on the Novel, fourteen judiciously chosen letters from the latest scholarly edition. · A wide range of early responses that demonstrate Tristram Shandy’s changing reception from its publication through the nineteenth century. · Eleven major critical interpretations, ten of them new to this edition. · A Chronology of Laurence Sterne’s life and work and a Selected Bibliography.