English 3310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Shoe Buckle, Convulsion, Laurence Sterne
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Born in ireland, but after cambridge settled in england. Unlike many of the authors in this course he lived most of his life in yorkshire, a rural community. He was to some extent, irreverent as a clergymen due to his large usage with sexual innuendo and the like. This was a difficult but wildly popular book in 1759 in five instalments, and make him very popular. It is episodic with a basic plot, but there is a lot of digression. It was deemed a bit bawdy, and as a result he did want to vindicate himself a little bit. However, people at the time read a lot of religious material, and he did write a lot of sermons. It has a basic plot sequence, but is not overly cohesive, and is very episodic. It is a picaresque narrative which originated from spain.
