Laurence Sterne - Wikipedia He is best known for his comic novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) Sterne grew up in a military family, travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England
Laurence Sterne | Biography, Tristram Shandy, Works, Books, Style . . . Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and humorist He is best known as the author of Tristram Shandy (1759–67), a novel in which story is subordinate to the free associations and digressions of its narrator
Sterne - The Laurence Sterne Trust Within a few months his portrait had been painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds (the foremost portrait painter of the day), and his presence was sought at the London houses of the rich and fashionable
Sterne and Sterneana - University of Cambridge Laurence Sterne and Sterneana brings key highlights of these rare collections to new audiences via Cambridge Digital Library, making them freely accessible to all, and guided by introductions to each item supplied by a global team of scholars
Laurence Sterne (Author of The Life and Opinions of . . . - Goodreads Laurence Sterne was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published many sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics
Laurence Sterne - New World Encyclopedia Sterne did not begin work on Tristram Shandy until he was 46 years old Tristram Shandy Sterne is best known for his novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, for which he became famous not only in England, but throughout Europe
Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel - Oxford Academic Perhaps he detected a strain of parody in Sterne that seemed to implicate his own techniques, and he clearly resented a display of formal and rhetorical pyrotechnics alongside which his own innovations looked staid and stale
Laurence Sterne | History | Research Starters - EBSCO Laurence Sterne was an influential English novelist born on November 24, 1713, in Clonmel, Ireland He is best known for his unique narrative style and whimsical humor, particularly in his seminal work, *Tristram Shandy*
Sterne and the Form of the Novel | Springer Nature Link Sterne’s novels occupy a curious and quite specific position in English literary history They were published in a period when prose fiction was entering upon a difficult time