Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… The encyclopedic turn of the work owes as much to the spirit of Rabelais and of Cervantes, as to Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy or Chambers’ Cyclopædia . While the life of a country parson meant that he was inserted in the social fabric …
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