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These thirteen essays have been collected to honor Melvyn New, professor emeritus (Florida), and are prefaced by a description of his scholarly career of more than forty years. Suggesting the wide range of that career, the first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. These include a reading of Eliot in the shadow of Pope; a comparison of Gainsborough's final paintings and Sterne's Sentimental Journey; a study of Johnson and casuistry; a discussion of Smollett's view of slavery in Roderick Random; a bibliographical study of a Lyttelton poem; a comparison of Swift and Nietzsche; and two essays about Fielding's Joseph Andrews. Laurence Sterne, the primary focus of Professor New's scholarship, is also the focus of the final five essays, which treat Sterne in contexts as disparate as the kabbalah, abolitionist discourse, local English church politics, the use of the fragment, and, finally, the culture of modernity.
Contents
Introduction: Selected Publications by Melvyn New
I: Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
1. Alexander Pope, T. S. Eliot, and the Fate of Poetry by Joseph G. Kronick
2. A Sentimental Journey through Thomas Gainsborough's "Cottage-door" Paintings by E. Derek Taylor
3. Johnson and Moral Argument: "We talked of the casuistical question . . " by Robert G. Walker
4. Slavery in Roderick Random by Taylor Corse
5. The Printing and Publication of Three Folio Editions of George Lyttelton's To the Memory of a Lady Lately Deceased (1747-48) by James E. May
6. Parson Adams's Sermons: Benjamin Hoadly and Henry Fielding by Martha E. Bowden
7. Joseph Andrews, Realism, and Openness by Eric Rothstein
8. Satire and the Psychology of Religion in Swift and Nietzsche by Frank Palmeri
II: Perspectives on Laurence Sterne
9. Gershom Scholem's Reading of Tristram Shandy by Elizabeth Kraft
10. Laurence Sterne, the Apostrophe, and American Abolitionism, 1788-1831 by W.B. Gerard
11. Attribution Problems in Sterne's Ecclesiastical and Secular Politickings by W.G. Day
12. Sterne and the Miracle of the Fragment by Madeleine Descargues-Grant
13. The centrality of Sterne in the Culture of Modernity, or Melvyn New and the Rewriting of the West by Donald R. Wehrs
Index
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