The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol.I

Sterne, Laurence

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“…Walter Shandy has strong views that given names can influence one's character: 'how many...might have done exceeding well in the world, had not their characters and spirits been totally depress'd and Nicodemus'd into nothing' (Sterne, 1759). To what extent may our behaviour be shaped by [6] Brought to our attention by Bob Ladd, to whom we express our thanks.…”

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Elizabeth and John: sound patterns of men's and women's names

1990

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He saw people...as careless and as indifferent about the name they imposed upon their child, or more so, than in the choice of Ponto or Cupid for their puppy dog.(Laurence Sterne, The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman)[1] The authors contributed equally to this work and the order of authorship is alphabetical.We are grateful to Jim Sholicar and Ted Briscoe for providing the noun statistics from Longmans Dictionary, and they acknowledge the Longman Group Inc. for allowing access to the machine-readable version of the dictionary. We further thank Ian Nimmo-Smith for statistical advice.

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Elizabeth and John: sound patterns of men's and women's names

1990

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“…Sterne claimed that the historian of the origins had no firmer base than conjectural history, leaving him with 'Accounts to reconcile, Anecdotes to pick up, Inscriptions to make out, Stories to weave in, Traditions to sift, Personages to call upon, Panegyricks to paste up at this door'. 89 This affinity between the approaches of a romancier and an antiquarian is telling. 90 Denis Diderot even suggested that the writing of history was more akin to the work of a novelist, as the crucial question of the causes of history was a matter of imaginative conjecture, not historical sifting of the sources.…”

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Gandy’s Arkaiology: The Deluge and Romantic Climatologies of Architecture

Hönes¹

2021

Archit. hist.

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Numerous renowned antiquaries and architects in Georgian Britain were enthralled by a strange craze: they declared the ark of Noah to be the origin and divine model for architecture worldwide. This article analyses the fashion for 'arkaiology’ (as the poet Robert Southey mockingly called it) by focusing on one of its most spectacular exponents, the architect Joseph Michael Gandy (1771-1843). Taking Gandy’s theories as the starting point to reconstruct a broader debate on climatological thinking about art and architecture, the article shows that the fascination with the deluge is best understood as a reaction against the climatic theory of the origins of architecture associated with Johann Joachim Winckelmann and the implicit cultural relativism that it entailed. The case of Gandy also sheds fresh light on the search for origins in late (Romantic) classicism. Instead of submitting to a climatically determined vernacular tradition, Gandy’s arkaiology allowed him to theorise the distant past as a space for speculative artistic reconstruction of the principles of architecture.

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“…In the same decade Laurence Sterne offered a complex assessment of the relationship between sympathy, active or charitable sensibility and the treatment of animals, epitomised in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Uncle Toby's refusal to harm a fly 'which had buzz'd about his nose, and tormented him cruelly all dinner-time'. 30 The treatment of flies is revisited later in Tristram Shandy when Toby and Corporal Trim encounter 'a poor negro girl, with a bunch of white feathers slightly tied to the end of a long cane, flapping away fliesnot killing them'. This compassion towards flies excites in turn the compassion of Toby and Trim and leads them into a metaphysical debate about whether Africans have souls.…”

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Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Anti‐Slavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature

Carey

2020

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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This article argues that anti-slavery and animal welfare writers actively and concurrently extended the boundaries of sympathy to promote an anti-cruelty ethos that encompassed both suffering animals and suffering people and demanded that this shift in sensibilities be enshrined in legislation. It charts this from the 1680s to the 1770s in pamphlets and novels by Thomas Tryon, Sarah Scott, Humphrey Primatt and Laurence Sterne, before exploring parallel early nineteenth-century debates over bull-baiting and the abolition of slavery in texts by Thomas Day, Percival Stockdale and Elizabeth Heyrick.

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Vol.I

Cited by 79 publications

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Elizabeth and John: sound patterns of men's and women's names

Elizabeth and John: sound patterns of men's and women's names

Gandy’s Arkaiology: The Deluge and Romantic Climatologies of Architecture

Abolishing Cruelty: The Concurrent Growth of Anti‐Slavery and Animal Welfare Sentiment in British and Colonial Literature

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