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Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature I

Laurence Sterne

The Works of Sterne

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.

Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Queen's University

Watson Hall
49 Bader Lane
Kingston ON K7L 3N6
Canada

Telephone (613) 533-2153

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