Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… Image Joshua Reynolds, Portrait of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), 1760, National Portrait Gallery, London. Résumé While Laurence Sterne was not one of the most prolific novelists of the eighteenth century, he was … the title page of the last three instalments. 5 . 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 few months in London, promoting his book, and being admitted in all the fashionable social circles, meeting the earl of Chesterfield or …
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