The English novelist Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) produced only two works of fiction, but he ranks as one of the major novelists of the 18th century because of his experiments with the structure and organization of the novel. The English novel came of age...

Laurence Sterne's enduring reputation as an author rests upon two works, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767) and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768), both of which were written and published during the last n...

Laurence Sterne's enduring reputation as an author rests upon two works, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767) and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768), both of which were written and published during the last n...

The Tristram Shandy paradox has its origins in an eighteenth century Lawrence Sterne novel in which the narrator, Tristram Shandy, is attempting to write his autobiography. However, it takes him one year to record the events of a single day of his...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years. It was not...

DURING the past couple of years, when I've told anyone who's asked that I'm currently adapting (translating? transliterating?) Tristram Shandy into a graphic novel, I've received two standard reactions: either "You must be mad!" or else "Wow! that must be a labour of love!"...

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has long been established as a work of both refined sensibility and exceptional vulgarity. Since its publication, critics have remarked upon the apparent contradiction between "the 'indelicacies' of Tristram Shandy and its triumphantly 'pathetic' cameos"...

Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, from a screenplay by Martin Hardy, based on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, turns out to be a remarkably successful spoof of period-costume filmmaking by way of a wacky Pirandellian...

Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, from a screenplay by Martin Hardy, based on The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne, turns out to be a remarkably successful spoof of period-costume filmmaking by way of a wacky...

Moglen examines the major characters of Tristram Shandy and concludes that, in addition to representing accurate portraits of the human condition, each is delineated via the same "diverse" and "eccentric" ways by which Sterne structured his novel.

In the following essay, Lanham contends that seemingly random interruptions of the main narrative by the protagonist/narrator of Tristram Shandy derive from classical examples of digression.

In the following excerpt, New argues that Sterne's Sermons reveal his belief in "right reason," a rational morality which is possible only when supported by religion. New maintains that Sterne's religious beliefs can be seen in Tristram Shandy, a satire on human appetite and excesses.

Explores Laurence Sterne's, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Describes how Sterne uses conventional, non-linear standards of digression and allusion common in the seventeenth-century throughout his novel.

This is a comparison essay about the character Emily in Ann Radcliff's "Mysteries of Udolpho" and Walter in Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy."