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SUMMARY:Adaptations and Illustrations of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shan
 dy - Dr Mary Newbould\, Wolfson College and Bowman Supervisor in English
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CONTACT:Graham Allen
DESCRIPTION:Laurence Sterne – one of the world’s greatest comic writer
 s – quipped that he wrote ‘not to be fed\, but to be famous’. His en
 ormously successful book\, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy\, Gent
 leman\, helped Sterne to achieve this ambition: it caused a sensation when
  it was published in the 1760s and remains in print to this day. Many of S
 terne’s earliest readers found his approach to novel-writing highly inno
 vative\, even provocative\, because of his zany narrative methods\, bawdy 
 jokes\, haphazard erudition\, and the striking visual features he brings i
 nto Tristram Shandy: its black\, marbled\, and blank pages continue to sur
 prise readers who first open the book\, as do the many asterisks and dashe
 s which often half-conceal rude words. From the outset Sterne’s readers 
 recorded their opinions about him and his work in remarkably imaginative w
 ays: prose parodies\, poems\, and plays sit alongside songs\, book illustr
 ations\, paintings\, satirical prints\, objects and\, most recently\, a gr
 aphic novel and a film inspired by Tristram Shandy. Adaptation and illustr
 ation provide a means by which to measure how Sterne was read and when: 
 ‘Sterneana’ boisterously displays Tristram Shandy’s continuing appea
 l.   
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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