Laurence Sterne
1713-68
Laurence Sterne in Cyberspace
This page is maintained by Masaru Uchida.
Last Modified: February 8, 2012
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."
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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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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.
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Leonard MacNally's theatrical adaptation of Tristram Shandy, published in London in 1783.
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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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An art exhibition held at Shandy Hall from September 6th to October 31st, 2009.
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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.
Blogs and Twitter
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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 Open Directory: Sterne, Laurence.
Misc.
Tristram Shandy (Glassgow University Library Special Collections Department)
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"At Shandy Hall in the 1760's, the witty and the eccentric local parson, Laurence Sterne, sprang to fame with two novels of genius, Tristram Shandy & A Sentimental Journey, books that 'jump out of the 18th century into the 20th.'"
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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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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.
Hypertext
18th-Century Studies
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Please send comments to:
Masaru Uchida (masaru@gifu-u.ac.jp)
(Professor of English Literature, Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Regional Studies, Gifu University)
Shandy Hall