Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
Auteur de La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy, gentilhomme
A propos de l'auteur
If Fielding showed that the novel (like the traditional epic or drama) could make the chaos of life coherent in art, Sterne only a few years later in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760--67) laughed away the notion of order. In Sterne's world, people are sealed off in their afficher plus own minds so that only in unpredictable moments of spontaneous feeling are they aware of another human being. Reviewers attacked the obscenity of Tristram's imagined autobiography as it was published (two volumes each in 1759, early 1761, late 1761, 1765, and one in 1767), particularly when the author revealed himself as a clergyman, but the presses teemed with imitations of this great literary hit of the 1760s. Through the mind of the eccentric hero, Sterne subverted accepted ideas on conception, birth, childhood, education, and the contemplation of maturity and death, so that Tristram's concerns touched his contemporaries and are still important. Since Tristram Shandy is patently a great and lasting comic work that yet seems, as E. M. Forster said, "ruled by the Great God Muddle," much recent criticism has centered on the question of its unity or lack of it; and its manipulation of time and of mental processes has been considered particularly relevant to the problems of fiction in our day. Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768) has been immensely admired by some critics for its superb tonal balance of irony and sentiment. His Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760) catches the spirit of its time by dramatically preaching benevolence and sympathy as superior to doctrine. Whether as Tristram or as Yorick, Sterne is probably the most memorably personal voice in eighteenth-century fiction. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Å’uvres de Laurence Sterne
La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy, gentilhomme (1759) — Auteur — 7,742 exemplaires, 115 critiques
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics) (1768) 445 exemplaires, 4 critiques
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Continuation of the Bramine's Journal (1768) 41 exemplaires, 1 critique
Tristram Shandy : an authoritative text, the author on the novel, criticism 37 exemplaires, 1 critique
A sentimental journey through France & Italy: With selections from the journals, sermons & correspondence of Laurence… (1926) 17 exemplaires
Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne, The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, Selected sermons and… (1950) 11 exemplaires
The beauties of Sterne including all his pathetic tales, & most distinguished observations on life. Selected for the… (1788) 9 exemplaires
Sterne's memoirs : a hitherto unrecorded holograph now brought to light in facsimile (1985) 8 exemplaires
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Text (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 7 exemplaires
La vida y las opiniones del caballero Tristram Shandy. Los sermones de Mr Yorick 6 exemplaires, 1 critique
A sentimental journey through France and Italy,: Together with The journal to Eliza, Letters to Eliza, (Immortal… (1937) 5 exemplaires
Werkausgabe: Tristram Shandy - Eine empfindsame Reise - Journal für Elisa - Satiren, Erzählungen, Briefe (2018) 5 exemplaires
A Eliza ou quatre-vingt-quinze variations sur un thème sentimental suivi de "L'Eloge d'Eliza Draper"… (1987) 4 exemplaires
Letters from Yorick to Eliza 4 exemplaires
Voyage sentimental suivi des lettres d'Yorick & Eliza 3 exemplaires
The Case of Hezekiah and the Messengers 3 exemplaires
Letters of the late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne 3 exemplaires
The Letters of Laurence Sterne: Part One, 1739–1764 (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (2009) 3 exemplaires
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes (Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne) (1996) 3 exemplaires
Tristram Schandis Leben und Meinungen - Band 1-3 3 exemplaires
Viaggio sentimentale di Yorick lungo la Francia e l'Italia. Testo inglese a fronte (2018) 2 exemplaires
The Works of Laurence Sterne - I. the Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (The World's Classics (1910) 2 exemplaires
The Miscellaneous Writings and Sterne's Subscribers, an Identification List (Florida Edition of the Works of… (2014) 2 exemplaires
A sentimental Yourney & The journal to Eliza 2 exemplaires
The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The Notes: Volume 5 of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne (1996) 2 exemplaires
The works of Laurence Sterne. In ten volumes complete. ... With a life of the author, written by himself. ... Volume 9… (2010) 2 exemplaires
Sterne : Memoirs of Mr. Laurence Sterne ; The life & opinions of Tristram Shandy ; A sentimental journey ; Selected… 2 exemplaires
Yorick's meditations upon various interesting and important subjects, viz. Upon nothing. Upon something. Upon the… (2012) 2 exemplaires
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman comprising the humorous adventures of Uncle Toby and Corporal Trim.… (1879) 2 exemplaires
En følsom rejse gennem Frankrig og Italien 2 exemplaires
Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction vol. 3 1 exemplaire
Sentimentaalinen matka 1 exemplaire
The Works of Sterne 1 exemplaire
Dario para Eliza 1 exemplaire
The Works of Laurence Sterne, vol. III 1 exemplaire
Laurence Sterne's letter to the Rev. Mr. Blake 1 exemplaire
Tristam Shandys Leben und Meinungen 1 exemplaire
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (MacDonald Illustrated Classics, Volume 3) (1950) 1 exemplaire
La vie et les opinions de Tristram Shandy 1 exemplaire
Laurence Sterne A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY Sylvain Sauvage Heritage Press c.1941 — Auteur — 1 exemplaire
Viaje sentimental por Francia e Italia novela 1 exemplaire
Noricks Predigten Bd. I 1 exemplaire
Tristram Shandy Gentleman 1 exemplaire
Viatge sentimental (volum I) 1 exemplaire
Sternes Letters to His Friends on Various Occasions To Which is Added His History of A Watch Coat (1775) 1 exemplaire
Sentimental Journey, A 1 exemplaire
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 25 November 2015 1 exemplaire
THE WORKS OF LAURENCE STERNE, VOLUME VIII, SERMONS 1 exemplaire
The Works of Stern in Two Vols. 1 exemplaire
The Letters of Laurence Sterne 1 exemplaire
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Vol. I/II 1 exemplaire
A Sentimental Journey and other pieces 1 exemplaire
Viatge sentimental a través de França i Itàlia 1 exemplaire
Saggio di sermoni sacri 1 exemplaire
Noricks Predigten Bd. II 1 exemplaire
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy 1 exemplaire
Voyage sentimental à travers la France et l'Italie 1 exemplaire
Rare Tristram Shandy -Laurence Sterne, The Franklin Library 1981 HC Collector Ed [Hardcover] Laurence Sterne 1 exemplaire
Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. 1 exemplaire
Un romanzo politico 1 exemplaire
Sentimental Journey and the Journal to Eliza. Essays & Belles-Letters Series. No.796 Everyman's Library 1 exemplaire
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. In Three Volumes. Volumes I and III 1 exemplaire
â„—Il â„—viaggio sentimentale di Yorick 1 exemplaire
The Works of Laurence Sterne : With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. Volume 8. Sermons of Laurence… (1999) 1 exemplaire
The Novels of Laurence Sterne in Four Volumes 1 exemplaire
A sentimental journey through France and Italy. With A political romance, A fragment, Journal to Eliza, Letters to… 1 exemplaire
Sermons by the Late Rev. Mr. Sterne 1 exemplaire
Three Books by Laurence Sterne 1 exemplaire
Selected prose and letters Volume 1 and 2 1 exemplaire
The case of Elijah and the widow of Zerephath, consider'd: a charity-sermon preach'd on Good-Friday, April 17, 1747,… 1 exemplaire
The Novels of Sterne, Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson, Mackenzie, Horace Walpole, and Clara Reeve : to which are prefixed… 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works And Life Of Laurence Sterne V3: A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy And The Letters Of… (2007) 1 exemplaire
Letters from Yorick to Eliza and Sterne's letters to his friends on various occasions. To which is added, his Watch… 1 exemplaire
Selected Prose and Letters II 1 exemplaire
Selected Prose and Letters I 1 exemplaire
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy and Letters of Laurence Sterne Edition De Luxe Vol. I 1 exemplaire
The saving of Shandy Hall : or, How to raise £25,000 in these hard times to banish the death-watch beetle,… 1 exemplaire
The Letters of the Rev: Laurence Sterne, A.M. 1 exemplaire
The Shandean: An Annual Volume Devoted To Laurence Sterne And His Works Volume 24 November 2013 (1992) 1 exemplaire
Explanatory remarks upon The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy; wherein, the morals and politics of this piece are… (2010) 1 exemplaire
Yoriks nachgelaßne Werke 1 exemplaire
LAURENCE STERN, JANE AUSTEN 1 exemplaire
. Conmel, 24/11/1713 - Londres 18/3/1768 1 exemplaire
The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman ... To which is added The sentimental journey. With illustrations… (1832) 1 exemplaire
The Sermons of Mr. Yorick in Two Volumes. Volume I 1 exemplaire
The Works of Laurence Sterne Complete in Seven Volumes; vol. VII, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. By… 1 exemplaire
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, by Mr. Yorick. With Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued, by… 1 exemplaire
The works of Laurence Sterne, comprising Tristram Shandy, A sentimental journey, and Letters. With a memoir written by… (2011) 1 exemplaire
The Works Of Sterne, Both Volumes (Life & Opinions, Tristam Shandy, Setimental Journey Through France & Italy, Volume I… (1900) 1 exemplaire
THE COMPLETE WORKS AND LIFE OF LAURENCE STERNE, VOLUME TWO--THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY IN FOUR VOLUMES,… (1904) 1 exemplaire
The Novels of Laurence Sterne in Four Volumes: Volume IV - A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy 1 exemplaire
Sterne's Sermons 1 exemplaire
The Works of Laurence Sterne, volume the fourth 1 exemplaire
Novels 1 exemplaire
SterneÕs novels 1 exemplaire
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman: Color Illustrated, Formatted for E-Readers (Unabridged Version) 1 exemplaire
Tristram Shandy (abridged) 1 exemplaire
A sentimental journey through France and Italy : to which are added the letters and a life of the author 1 exemplaire
Viatge sentimental (volum II) 1 exemplaire
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The Lock and Key Library (Volume 7: Oldtime English) (1909) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires, 1 critique
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Oogst der tijden : keur uit de werken van schrijvers en dichters aller volken en eeuwen (1940) — Contributeur — 10 exemplaires
The History of Candide, or, All for the Best, with Zadig, or, Destiny an Oriental History, with A Sentimental Journey… (1933) 5 exemplaires
Anthology of Romanticism Volume Two: Selections From The Pre-Romantic Movement — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Sterne, Laurence
- Date de naissance
- 1713-11-24
- Date de décès
- 1768-03-18
- Lieu de sépulture
- St. Michael's Churchyard, Coxwold, Yorkshire, England, UK (reinterred 1969)
St. George's Churchyard, Hanover Square, London, England, UK - Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Ireland (birth)
England - Lieu de naissance
- Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- London, England
- Cause du décès
- tuberculosis
- Lieux de résidence
- Coxwold, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Études
- Jesus College, Cambridge University (BA|1737|MA|1740)
- Professions
- Anglican Cleric (Deacon, 1737|Priest, 1738)
Novelist - Organisations
- Church of England
- Courte biographie
- Laurence Sterne was born in Clonmel, Ireland in 1713, son of an army ensign. During his first ten years the family moved from barracks to barracks. At the age of ten, Laurence went to school in Halifax and later went on to study divinity and classics at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained into the Church of England as a deacon in 1737 after graduating that year. With the help of his uncle, Dr Jaques Sterne (Precentor of York), he began to make a moderately successful ecclesiastical career. He was ordained priest in 1738 and was granted the living of Sutton-on-the-Forest, to which he added six years later the living of Stillington. He married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741 and had a daughter, Lydia – the only one of his children to survive infancy.
Two of his sermons were published in 1747 and 1750, but the publication of a satirical pamphlet in 1759 displayed his talents as a writer.
The pamphlet, A Political Romance, was suppressed; but it gave Sterne the inspiration for a more ambitious work, and he contacted the London bookseller, Robert Dodsley with the draft of one volume of a work entitled The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy. Unable to secure a guarantee of publication, Sterne revised the work and in 1759 printed and published the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy by paying for it himself and sending it to London.
Tristram Shandy was an immediate success. Sterne became famous virtually overnight and following the exhibition of his portrait painted by Joshua Reynolds became a celebrity within the first few months of the book's release.
Sterne had already published the first two volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman when he came to Coxwold in 1760. He wrote the next seven volumes of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy while living at Shandy Hall.
His friends celebrated his success as a writer by christening his new home ‘Shandy Hall', the word Shandy being a dialect word for ‘wild, nonsensical, merry or odd'.
Alterations to the house were made by Sterne including the building of a coach house, a cellar and a box-like two-storey brick façade at the west end.
He had been afflicted all his life with illness, and travelled for his health to France, where his wife and daughter took up residence. In the last years of his life he fell in love with Eliza Draper, and wrote A Journal to Eliza after she returned to India and her husband.
Laurence Sterne died in 1768, and was buried three times: once in the graveyard of St. George's, Hanover Square; again when he was recognized after having been disinterred for anatomists; and finally, when development took place at the London burial ground, his skull and a femur were taken to Coxwold and buried outside the church where he was once the preacher.
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Discussions
the life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy à Folio Society Devotees (Juin 2022)
Laurence Sterne - Resources and General Discussion à Literary Centennials (Janvier 2016)
Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy à Literary Centennials (Mars 2014)
Laurence Sterne - A Sentimental Journey à Literary Centennials (Décembre 2013)
The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne - lyzard tutoring keristars à 75 Books Challenge for 2012 (Avril 2012)
Tristram Shandy: Books 7-9 à Group Reads - Literature (Février 2012)
Tristram Shandy, Books 4-6 à Group Reads - Literature (Août 2011)
Tristram Shandy: Books 1-3 à Group Reads - Literature (Août 2011)
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