Sterne's work has been received, translated and imitated in most
European countries with great success. Interest in his life and
work grew into a literary cult at an early stage and led to the
vogue of sentimentalism: Sterne became a legendary English writer,
second only to Shakespeare. Among the topics discussed in this
volume are: questions arising from the serial nature of much of
Sterne's writings; the various ways in which translators all across
Europe coped with the specific problems which the witty and
ingenious Sternean text poses; the extent to which especially "A
sentimental Journey" was regarded as a provocative political text
and was therefore used as a weapon in nationalist movements; how
"Tristram Shandy" became a test case for theories of humour and
sentiment; how Sterne's texts and the "Letters" were used as
didactic tools; how the history of the reception of Sterne mirrors
the continental shift from a French cultural paradigm to a German
and English one; and how the cult of Maria materialized in prints,
paintings and ceramics. Trans-national patterns are emphasized, as
are the impact of Sterne on European sentimentalism and modernist
narrative theory.
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