Tristram Shandy Topics

Sterne and Tristram

interiority and gender

serial publication and its effect on reading

forced reading

Sterne's relationship as novelist to Fielding

symbols and metaphors

repetition

interruption

re-reading

reproduction

marginalization of women

importance of the visual and non-verbal

author as exhibitionist

novel and autobiography

a novel aware that it is a novel

authority of the narrator

idea of an author

role of science in the text

de-sexed persons

as about the social history of the eighteenth century

initial sortings:

interiority and gender; marginalization of women

the "re" group: rereading, repetition; reproduction; forced re-reading

visual; author as exhibitionist

Sterne and Tristram; autobiography

interruption; novel as self-aware; serial publication