This course will engage with all of Sterne’s works: Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey, The Sermons and minor writings. Among issues to be considered are: Sterne as precursor to the postmodern, as radical or conservative satirist, sentimentalist, Anglican minister, literary celebrity, etc. Approaches from all angles are welcome: theoretical, rhetorical, historical, political, obstetrical, etc. (most of ’em ending, as these do, in ical).
Readings
- Tristram Shandy, Norton Critical Edition (ed., Judith Hawley, 2019)
- A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings ed., Ian Jack and Tim Parnell (Oxford)
Assessment
- Participation: regular contributions to class
- Group seminar presentation
- A reading journal
- A critical essay
**Subject to change**
Prerequisites
- ENGL 200
- ENGL 290
Additional information
This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.
