Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… Carolyn Dever, eds., The Literary Channel: The Inter-National Invention of the Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002). From country parson to literary celebrity Laurence Sterne was first a country parson. After leaving Jesus … . See Jack Lynch, Deception and Detection in Eighteenth-Century Britain (London: Routledge, 2016). In a letter, Sterne expressed the appeal which celebrity exerted upon him: ‘I wrote not to be fed , but to be famous ’. 6 In 1760, he spent a … Sterne’s reputation had not abated, as testified by his exchange with Ignatius Sancho. 13 Sancho wrote to Sterne expressing his enthusiasm for uncle Toby as well as for his sermons, and suggested that he might write about the African …
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