Melvyn New

W. B. Gerard

M-C. Newbould

Introduction: A sentimental journey's critical legacies. / W.B. Gerard and M-C. Newbould -- Men, women, and other animals. Refining masculinity in Yorick's Journey : courtesy, chivalry, gallantry / Shaun Regan -- Yorick's war : patriot politics, military men, and willing women in A sentimental journey / Julia Banister -- Sterne's Journey into animal affect / Glynis Ridley -- Words, structures, things. Spatial digression and the borders of knowledge in A sentimental journey / Chris Ewers -- (O)economy and order : Laurence Sterne's chaptering / Alexander Hardie-Forsyth -- Yorick's speech : the limits of elocution in A sentimental journey / Fraser Easton -- Things of the spirit : vibrant matter in A sentimental journey / Jennifer Preston Wilson -- Historical contexts, rewritten texts. Boswell and Sterne in 1768 / Melvyn New -- The shadow of Eliza : Sterne's underplot in A sentimental journey / Peter Budrin -- Debt, death, and literary inheritance : the ends of Sterne and A sentimental journey / Paul Goring -- Afterword / Pat Rogers.

A Legacy to the World

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its share of critical attention, but—unlike Tristram Shandy—to date it has not been the subject of a dedicated anthology of critical essays. This volume fills that gap with fresh perspectives on Sterne’s novel that will appeal to students and critics alike. Together with an introduction that situates each essay within A Sentimental Journey’s reception history, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne’s career and his death, this volume presents a cohesive approach to this significant text that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.

Robert G. Walker

E Derek Taylor

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.

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

Swiftly Sterneward

M-C Newbould

Together with a critical introduction that situates each contribution within a broader account of A Sentimental Journey's critical and creative reception, and a tailpiece detailing the culmination of Sterne's career with this novel and his own death, this collection presents a cohesive approach to this significant text and its time that is simultaneously grounded and revelatory.

W. B. Gerard

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