Satire, Comedy and Tragedy: Stee’s “Handles” to Tristram Shandy

by: Richard C. Raymond (Author)

Publisher: Anthem Press

Publication Date: 2023/10/10

Language: English

Print Length: 180 pages

ISBN-10: 1839988630

ISBN-13: 9781839988639

Book Description

The first four chapters of the book provide a close reading of the satiric, comic, and tragic action of Laurence Stee’s novel in the context of criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chapter 5 provides a summary of Chapters 1–4, focusing on Stee’s purpose in revising satiric plot structures and in blurring the lines between fiction and autobiography. Chapters 6–8 then examine Stee’s themes from TristramShandythat inform his letters, sermons, and other fiction; Chapter 9 discusses the inteational reception of TristramShandy and argues for using writing-to-lea strategies to teach Stee’s greatest novel to undergraduate and graduate students.

About the Author

The first four chapters of the book provide a close reading of the satiric, comic, and tragic action of Laurence Stee’s novel in the context of criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chapter 5 provides a summary of Chapters 1–4, focusing on Stee’s purpose in revising satiric plot structures and in blurring the lines between fiction and autobiography. Chapters 6–8 then examine Stee’s themes from TristramShandythat inform his letters, sermons, and other fiction; Chapter 9 discusses the inteational reception of TristramShandy and argues for using writing-to-lea strategies to teach Stee’s greatest novel to undergraduate and graduate students.