Introduction Part I: Sociality and Sensibility 1. Sexualism and the Citizen of the World: Wycherley, Sterne and Male Homosexual Desire 2. Laurence Sterne and the "Sociality" of the Novel Part II: Feminism/Gender/Sexualities 3. Words for Sex: The Verbal-Sexual Continuum in Tristram Shandy 4. Job's Wife and Sterne's Other Women Part III: Sterne and the Body 5. "Uncrystalized Flesh and Blood": The Body in Tristram Shandy 6. Running out of Matter: The Body Exercised in Eighteenth-Century Fiction Part IV: Sources, Imitation, Plagiarism 7. Sterne, Burton, and Ferriar: Allusions to the Anatomy of Melancholy in Volumes V to IX of Tristram Shandy 8. Sterne's System of Imitation Part V: Narrative and Form 9. Narrative Middles: a Preliminary Outline 10. On Sterne's Page: Spatial Layout, Spatial Form, and Social Spaces in Tristram Shandy Notes on authors Further reading Index
Biography
Marcus Walsh is Professor of English Literature at the Univeristy of Birmingham. He has written extensively on Smart, Swift, Johnson and Stern. Publications include Christopher Smart: Poetical Works Vols I and II, (OUP 1983, 1987), and Shakespeare, Milton and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing (CUP 1997).
