Laurence Sterne
1713-68
Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace
This page is maintained by Masaru Uchida.
Last Modified: April 14, 2018
Japanese version is here.
E-Texts
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"The Tristram Shandy Web is a critical edition of the text in a digital version. Starting from Sterne's original print edition -- whose layout we intentionally preserved unaltered -- we aim at showing its complexity in accordance with the advantages of hypertext format. . . . The Tristram Shandy Web is not only a forum of discussion opened to everyone in the World Wide Web environment, but mainly a new critical edition of the text. . . . [Y]ou are most welcome to send your personal contribution to the editorial board of The Tristram Shandy Web."
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An HTML version of the whole text, with hyperlinks to each chapter and the key passages.
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A hypertext version of volumes 1 and 2, with extensive linkings of characters, themes, and extraneous information.
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- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 1. 2nd ed. (1st London ed.) London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. ESTC Citation Number: T14790. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 2. 2nd ed. (1st London ed.) London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1760. ESTC #: T14790. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 3. 1st ed. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. ESTC #: T14705. [Google Books] (This digitized edition includes a full-color reproduction of the marbled leaf.)
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 3. 1st ed. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. ESTC #: T14705. [Google Books] (Another copy of the same edition. The marbled leaf from this copy is here.)
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 4. 1st ed. London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1761. ESTC #: T14705. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 5. 1st ed. London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1762. ESTC #: T14706. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 6. 1st ed. London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1762. ESTC #: T14706. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 7. 1st ed. London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1765. ESTC #: T14820. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 8. 1st ed. London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1765. ESTC #: T14820. [Google Books]
- Tristram Shandy. Vol. 9. 1st ed. London: T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, 1767 [PDF, 15.7MB]. ESTC #: T14824. [Gifu University]
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The digitized early editions of Sterne's other works (including sermons and letters) are listed on another page.
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Web-based KWIC concordances to Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey.
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The Sermons of Mr. Yorick
[Vol. 1]
[Vol. 2] (ECCO-TCP, University of Michigan)
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A satirical pamphlet Sterne wrote just before he started working on Tristram Shandy. The satire is aimed at conflicts of interest within the York Minster.
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Sterne's love letters to Eliza Draper, a married woman younger than him by 31 years. The letters were published after Sterne's death. A collection of forged letters from Eliza to Sterne was soon published. This site also offers a side-by-side view of both texts.
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Books and Journals on Laurence Sterne
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"THE SHANDEAN has been established as an international scholarly journal for the critical and historical investigation of all aspects of the work and life of LAURENCE STERNE."
Volumes 1-24 of The Shandean were published by The Laurence Sterne Trust. Future volumes (after volume 25) will be published by The International Laurence Sterne Foundation.
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"This Companion is the first collection of essays to analyse the full range of Sterne's published output, including A Political
Romance and The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, in its historical and cultural context."
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Volume VI of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne.
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Volume VII of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne.
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Volume VIII of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne.
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Volume IX of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne.
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After the search, if you choose the "Full view books" option and search again, you may have access to some 18th- and 19th- century rare books in PDF format.
Adaptations of Sterne's Works
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A comic-book version by Martin Rowson.
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Information on the movie directed by Michael Winterbottom. You can search YouTube for some clips from the movie. See also the entry on the movie in British Films Directory. The DVD of the movie is available in Region 1 and Region 2 formats.
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A radio drama version of Tristram Shandy, adapted by Graham White and aired on BBC Radio 4 from January 31st to February 11th, 2005. Re-broadcast and streamed on BBC Radio 4 Extra from April 9th to 20th, 2018.
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Leonard MacNally's theatrical adaptation of Tristram Shandy, published in London in 1783.
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Tim Robertson's theatrical adaptation of Tristram Shandy, which was first performed in Sydney in 1981.
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Callum Hale's theatrical adaptation of Tristram Shandy, performed in London in 2014.
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Will Dalrymple's theatrical adaptation of Tristram Shandy, performed in London in 2017. First performed in Cambridge as Tristram Shandy: Live at the ADC! (2015).
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A musical entertainment based on Tristram Shandy, performed by the music students of the University of York from November 18th to 20th, 2009.
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Art exhibitions held at Shandy Hall.
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An etching based on a microscope photograph of the full stop that ends the last sentence of Tristram Shandy.
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An abridged audiobook version read by John Moffatt
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Another abridged audiobook version read by Steven Pacey
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An unabridged audiobook version read by Anton Lesser
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Another unabridged audiobook version read by Peter Barker. Available via iTunes.
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An unabridged audiobook version read by Anton Lesser
Study Guides
- A selection of excerpts from scholarly work on Tristram Shandy.
Twitter and other SNSs
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Bibliographies
Essays and Online Books on Sterne
Sterne (by H.D. Traill [1882])
The Life of Laurence Sterne,
Volume 1 and Volume 2 (by Percy Fitzgerald [3rd ed., 1904])
Sterne: A Study (by Walter Sydney Sichel [1910])
Sterne's Eliza (by Arnold Wright and William Lutley Sclater [1922])
- For more essays on Sterne, check out The Tristram Shandy Web and Curlie - The Collector of URLs: Sterne, Laurence.
Misc.
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"The International Laurence Sterne Foundation was launched in the tercentenary year 2013 in the week of Sterne's birthday on 24 November at the Sterne Conference in Venice. Its purposes are to encourage study of the life and works of Laurence Sterne, and to facilitate and coordinate ways in which Sterne scholars may meet together. To these ends the Foundation publishes each year The Shandean, maintains a website and a Facebook group, e-mails a newsletter to members, and helps organise a Sterne conference every two years."
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"The Laurence Sterne Trust was established as a registered charity in 1967 in order to promote the writings of Laurence Sterne, the 18th century novelist and vicar of Coxwold. Shandy Hall is where he lived and wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. The Trust promotes Sterne's work and international reputation through exhibitions, events and public access to the property and its collection." The Twitter page for the Laurence Sterne Trust is here.
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"Shandy Hall is an Accredited Museum (No. 1580) and is owned by the Laurence Sterne Trust (Registered Charity 529593). It contains a collection of books, paintings, manuscripts, prints and ephemera relating to the writer Laurence Sterne. This collection of editions of Sterne's works (largely collected by Kenneth Monkman the founder of the Trust) is internationally recognised. Shandy Hall is open to the public on advertised days during the summer and by appointment."
Click here to view a Google Map of the Shandy Hall location.
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"The Good Humour Club project is part of the 300th anniversary celebrations of the birth of Laurence Sterne. The discovery of a minute book from 1743 in the collection at Shandy Hall of a hitherto unknown society became the inspiration for The Good Humour Club project, which will run throughout Sterne's tercentenary to May 2014."
The special website for the Good Humour Club exhibition is full of valuable information on Sterne and eighteenth-century York, including an interactive map of York in 1750.
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"Asterisk* will be a physical centre, based at Shandy Hall, where Laurence Sterne (1713-68) wrote The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and exploded the notion of what a narrative might be. Asterisk* will also be an online focus for narrative study and development internationally."
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Short documentary films produced by the Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past (IPUP) at the University of York.
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A BBC radio program in which the host Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Tristram Shandy.
Tristram Shandy (Glassgow University Library Special Collections Department)
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Sterne's portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The National Portrait Gallery also has the marble bust by Joseph Nollekens.
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Contains the lyrics, the musical score and a MIDI transcription of "Lillabullero," a tune whistled by Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy.
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This site has links to various antique maps of Namur, at the siege of which Uncle Toby in Tristram Shandy received his wound in the groin.
- "Displayed here are some copies of the marbled pages (pp. 169 and 170) in several different first editions of Volume 3 of Tristram Shandy. Due to the nature of this particular marbling technique, it was impossible to make a second 'copy' of the same design, and thus all 4000 first edition copies of the novel contain two different marbled pages."
Google Books has some interesting marbled pages, including this one with little smily faces drawn by the reader.
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An HTML version of the whole text, with interactive illustrations ( [Plate 1][Plate 2] ). You can compare Hogarth's "line of beauty" with the shape of Corporal Trim's left leg (illustrated by Hogarth) in Volume 2, Chapter 17 of Tristram Shandy, where Trim reads a sermon written by Parson Yorick.
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A quasi-critical commentary on Tristram Shandy, published in 1760.
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An imitation of Sterne by an anonymous writer, published in 1760.
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Published in 1788. Most of the letters are forgeries by William Combe.
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An extract from the "Fragment inédit," attributed to Sterne by Paul Stapfer, a 19th-century French scholar.
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An anonymous poem once attributed to Sterne, which was published in vol. 13 (July 1743) of The Gentleman's Magazine.
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The death of George Oswald, a young man who was suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, as recorded by Sterne in his letters to his acquaintances.
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Articles on the villages where Sterne was Vicar.
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18th-Century Studies
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Please send comments to:
Masaru Uchida (uchida.masaru.m7@f.gifu-u.ac.jp)
(Professor of English Literature, Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University)