TY - BOOK AU - Bosch,René AU - Verhoeff,Piet TI - Labyrinth of digressions: Tristram Shandy as perceived and influenced by Sterne's early imitators T2 - Costerus SN - 9781435612914 AV - PR3714.T73 B67 2007 U1 - 823/.6 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Amsterdam, New York, NY PB - Rodopi KW - Sterne, Laurence, KW - Sterne, Laurence. KW - Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence) KW - fast KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Rezeption KW - gnd KW - The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne) KW - gtt KW - Imitatie KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-312) and index; Labyrinth of Digressions; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; A Note on References; Introduction; PART ONE: POSITIVE EXPECTATIONS; Chapter One: Tristram in Grub Street; Chapter Two: Sterne in Covent-Garden; Chapter Three: Sentiment, or Something Like It; PART TWO: CONTAMINATION; Chapter Four: Impulses; Chapter Five: Nonsense and the Grotesque; PART THREE: SHIFTING THEMES; Chapter Six: Soldiers; Chapter Seven: Women; Chapter Eight: Physicians; Chapter Nine: Philosophers; Epilogue: The Waning of the Satirical Age; Bibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman caused something like a booksellers' hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sterne's success by bringing out great numbers of spurious new volumes, critical or ironic pamphlets, and works that in style and title express a congeniality with Tristram Shandy . This study explores these eighteenth-century imitations as indicators of contemporary assumptions about Sterne's intentions. Comparisons between the original, the first reactions, and a numb UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=211900 ER -