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Article: Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne.
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- Yearbook of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Critical Essays on Laurence Sterne. Ed. by Melvyn New.
(Critical Essays on British
Literature) New York: G. K. Hall; London, Mexico City,
New Delhi: Prentice Hall International. 1998. xiii +335 pp. [pound]32;$49.
With the demise of Kenneth Monkman, Melvyn New is without any doubt the most important Sterne scholar now living. In this collection of essays he has gathered an impressive and international range of different approaches to Laurence Sterne, excluding (fortunately) what New amusingly calls the 'neo-Victorian' or Politically Correct approach, and (unfortunately) the purely bibliological one. Of the eighteen essays, fourteen were previously published, ...