The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 4: The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The TextThe Text

Sterne, Laurence; New, Melvyn

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“…He was buried at the cemetery of the parish of St George’s Hanover-Square in the Bayswater Road, London. 12 It was reported that only two mourners were present at his funeral, Thomas Becket and Sterne’s lawyer, Samuel Salt. 13 Soon after his interment, he was unceremoniously removed from his grave and sold to the Anatomy School in Cambridge, hereafter referred to as resurrection.…”

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The afterlife of Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): Body snatching, dissection and the role of Cambridge anatomist Charles Collignon

Dittmar

Mitchell

2016

J Med Biogr

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This paper aims to highlight the practice of body snatching from graves in the 1700s for the purpose of providing corpses for anatomical dissection, and for stocking anatomy museums. To do this, we examine the exhumation and dissection of the famous eighteenth-century novelist Laurence Sterne and explore the involvement of Charles Collignon, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Cambridge. We also show that osteological and cut-mark analysis of a skull purported to be that of Sterne, currently housed in the Duckworth Collection at Cambridge, provides the key to solving the mystery surrounding why Sterne was resurrected.

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The afterlife of Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): Body snatching, dissection and the role of Cambridge anatomist Charles Collignon

Dittmar

Mitchell

2016

J Med Biogr

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“…A posição de Sterne (2007), entre os escritores de romance, é de um tipo de humor subversivo. É através do seu humor, o humor de seus personagens, suas descrições dramáticas, distintas de suas descrições críticas, que ele é e vai ser lembrado.…”

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De Swift a Sterne: reflexões sobre o humor britânico na obra de Machado de Assis

Redmond

2011

Acta Sci. Lang. Cult.

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RESUMO.Os humoristas britânicos, especialmente Swift e Sterne são tradicionalmente vistos como escritores que influenciaram a obra de Machado de Assis. Entretanto, foi o crítico Eugenio Gomes que provou, com precisão, a sutileza e o bom gosto que Machado obteve dessa influência. Em uma abordagem contemporânea, torna-se interessante questionar essa idéia de influência e examinar, à luz da intertextualidade, esse contato do humor entre as obras de Machado e as dessas duas grandes figuras da Literatura na Língua Inglesa.Palavras-chave: humor, Machado de Assis, intertextualidade, literatura inglesa.ABSTRACT. From Swift to Sterne: reflections on British humour in the works of Machado de Assis. The British humourists, especially Swift and Sterne are traditionally seen as writers who influenced Machado de Assis' works. However it was the critic Eugenio Gomes who showed with precision the sublety and excellent taste of Machado obtained through this influence. With our contemporary approaches, it becomes interesting to question the idea of influence and examine in the light of intertextuality this contact of humour between the works of Machado and those of these two great figures of Literature in the English Language.

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“…As Sterne observes in Sermon 14, 'Self-Examination', concerning the important task of balancing the 'causes' and the 'consequences' of our actions, 'as the world goes, there is no leisure for such enquiries, and so full are our minds of other matters, that we have not time to ask, or a heart to answer the questions we ought to put to ourselves'. 12 Solitude should provide a moment of pause the better to aid such reflection, to attain fuller self-knowledge, to further fruitful 'commerce' with others, but the challenge is intensified at moments of aloneness: Yorick often acts rashly and thinks later when he finds himself uncomfortably alone, to discover a gap between an internally perceived reality and an external one. This difficulty in solitary, self-honest reflection is captured in a chapter in A Sentimental Journey simply entitled 'Paris'.…”

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Solitary Confinement, Aloneness, and Sociability in Sterne

Newbould

2023

Literature & History

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Laurence Sterne develops his complex approach towards solitude throughout his fictional and non-fictional writings. Ranging between A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, Bramine's Journal, Letters from Yorick to Eliza, and Sterne's sermons, this article explores how Sterne juxtaposes the pleasures of retirement with more painful loneliness, and the opportunities that each opens up for sometimes challenging self-contemplation. Various locations stimulate Sterne's engagement with this relationship in differing ways: simply, the enjoyable solitude of country retreat contrasts with the superficial busyness of city life; but for Sterne the opportunity to attain greater self-knowledge comes through his interactions with others. Alone, he must construct imaginary forms of sociability, especially with his beloved but absent Eliza, whom he brings into a fictive conversation through his writing. In the process, the quixotism of Sterne's sentimental authorial persona leads not to a performance of feeling, but to an embrace of human frailty and hopefulness alike.

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The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, Vol. 4: The Sermons of Laurence Sterne: The TextThe Text

Cited by 38 publications

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The afterlife of Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): Body snatching, dissection and the role of Cambridge anatomist Charles Collignon

The afterlife of Laurence Sterne (1713–1768): Body snatching, dissection and the role of Cambridge anatomist Charles Collignon

De Swift a Sterne: reflexões sobre o humor britânico na obra de Machado de Assis

Solitary Confinement, Aloneness, and Sociability in Sterne

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