Hilarions Asse: Laurence Sterne and Humour - Hardcover

Anne Bandry-Scubbi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1443842311 ISBN 13: 9781443842310

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the tercentenary of Sterne's birth. This volume offers nine different facets of humour, a kaleidoscope which enables readers to recombine at will the genial, the bawdy, the sentimental, the ludicrous, the hobby-horsical, the philosophical, the irreverent, the incongruous and the facetious, sending the text spiralling out of the page.

About this title

About the Author:

Anne BANDRY-SCUBBI, Professor of British literature at the University of Strasbourg, has published extensively on eighteenth-century fiction and is the senior editor of Revue de la societe d'Etudes Anglo-americaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siecles. She has co-authored Tristram Shandy: Laurence Sterne (Armand Colin, 2006). Peter DE VOOGD, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Utrecht, has published widely on the eighteenth century and Modernism, and is the founding editor of The Shandean, co-editor of The Reception of Sterne in Europe (Athlone Press - Continuum, 2004) and of The Letters of Laurence Sterne (University of Florida Press, 2009).

Review:

"The nine critical voices gathered together in this volume ... must achieve a difficult narrative balance between gravity and merriment. [...] Happily, each of these essayists meets the mark splendidly while achieving a perhaps even rarer feat, inviting readers to share in the laughter by recollecting their own fun in reading and re-reading Sterne. On the whole, the tone of Hilarion's Asse is one of spirited and convivial conversation in which one reader enthusiastically tells of favourite comic episodes to others who have perhaps forgotten all the moments in the text at which he or she laughed or perhaps never saw the episode in that particular way. As a result, readers are both reminded of having laughed and prompted to laugh anew." Melanie Holm Indiana University of Pennsylvania The Shandean, 27 (2016)

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1443842311
• ISBN 13: 9781443842310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 155
• Editor: Anne Bandry-Scubbi, Peter De Voogd