Description
Offers new readings of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by considering its design features alongside broader developments in eighteenth-century book production.
About the Author
Helen Williams is a Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, researching eighteenth-century literature and book history. She has co-edited John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018) and has won a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2019) for her work on the novel in the hand-press period.
Reviews
'In Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book, Helen Williams has written a careful, scholarly study of lasting value about Sterne as a book designer. No one has yet attempted so thorough and meticulous a study of Sterne's 'graphic and typographic ingenuity'. His audacious blank, black and marbled pages are placed in the context of other printed design materials -'print sources beyond the novel'. What Thomas Keymer did for Tristram Shandy's context of writing-identifying the antecedents for what seems'post-modern' in Tristram's floating world-Williams has done for the physical design of first editions of the book.' TLS Reviews
'... written as a clear work of scholarship with all that that implies in language ... Recommended.' R. Stone, Choice Magazine
Book Information
ISBN 9781108842761
Author Helen Williams
Format Hardback
Page Count 217
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 470g
Dimensions(mm) 155mm * 235mm * 20mm