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wide range of thinking about Sterne: a good deal of the best scholarship and work that provides new perspectives or helps the reader to understand Tristram Shandy. Besides the Florida Edition, which is making all of Sterne’s writings available with high editorial standards, the editions especially of James A. Work (1940) and Melvyn New (1997), and of Ian Watt (1965), Graham Petrie (1967), Howard Anderson (1980), and Ian Campbell Ross (1983), have all been useful. In addition to the works listed below, scholarship not mentioned here will often appear in the notes.

STANDARD EDITION:

The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, ed. Melvyn New (General Editor), Jane New, and W. G. Day, with Richard A. Davies. Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 6 vols., 1978–. To date, the following volumes have been published: Tristram Shandy (1–3), Sermons (4–5), and A Sentimental Journey and Continuation of the Bramine’s Journal (6), the latter of which is better known as the Journal to Eliza.

STERNE BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Hartley, Lodwick. Laurence Sterne in the Twentieth Century: An Essay and a Bibliography of Sternean Studies, 1900–1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.

———. Laurence Sterne, 1965–1977: An Annotated Bibliography. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.

Hartley’s two bibliographies may be supplemented by the MLA Bibliography, the Web pages of Jack Lynch and Marcus Walsh, and the archives of Selected Readings of C18-L, a listserv devoted to the eighteenth century.

BIOGRAPHY:

Cash, Arthur H. Laurence Sterne: The Early and Middle Years. London: Methuen, 1975.

———. Laurence Sterne: The Later Years. London: Methuen, 1986.

Ross, Ian Campbell. Laurence Sterne: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

RECEPTION:

Howes, Alan B. Yorick and the Critics: Sterne’s Reputation in England, 1760–1868. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958.

Sterne: The Critical Heritage, ed. Alan B. Howes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

CRITICISM:

Alter, Robert. “Sterne and the Nostalgia for Reality.” In Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975.

Anderson, Howard. “A Version of Pastoral: Class and Society in Tristram Shandy.” Studies in English Literature 7 (1967): 509–29.

Battestin, Martin C. The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Booth, Wayne C. “Did Sterne Complete Tristram Shandy?” Modern Philology 48 (1951): 172–83.

———. “The Self-Conscious Narrator in Prose Fiction Before Tristram Shandy.” PMLA 48 (1952): 163–85.

Brady, Frank. “Tristram Shandy: Sexuality, Morality, and Sensibility.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 4 (1970): 41–56.

Brown, Marshall. “Sterne’s Stories.” In Preromanticism. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Burckhardt, Sigurd. “Tristram Shandy’s Law of Gravity.” Journal of English Literary History 28 (1961): 70–88.

Byrd, Max. Tristram Shandy. London: Unwin, 1985.

Ehlers, Leigh A. “Mr. Shandy’s ‘Lint and Basilicon’: The Importance of Women in Tristram Shandy.” South Atlantic Review 46 (1981): 61–75.

Harries, Elizabeth W. “Sterne’s Novels: Gathering Up the Fragments.” Journal of English Literary History 49 (1982): 35–49.

Holtz, William V. Image and Immortality: A Study of “Tristram Shandy.” Providence: Brown University Press, 1970.

Hunter, J. Paul. “Clocks, Calendars, and Names: The Troubles of Tristram and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty.” In Rhetorics of Order/Ordering Rhetorics, eds. J. Douglas Canfield and J. Paul Hunter. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 1989.

Iser, Wolfgang. Laurence Sterne: “Tristram Shandy,” trans. David Henry Wilson. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Jefferson, D. W. “Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit.” Essays in Criticism 1 (1951): 225–48.

Keymer, Thomas. Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Lamb, Jonathan. Sterne’s Fiction and the Double Principle. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Lanham, Richard A. “Tristram Shandy