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The Impossibility of Knowing in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy

 

Start with this article by Clark Lawlor on Time and Disease in Tristram Shandy.  And read this article by

Melvyn New on Sterne and the Microscope.

 

 

You could also look at: Molesworth, Jesse. Chance and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Realism, Probability, Magic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.  Chapter 5 is on Sterne.

 

Also read the original 1743 text of Baker's The Microscope Made Easy

 

Focussing on three key scenes in the novel, what does Sterne's text tell us about his response to Eighteenth century ideas about the medical profession, science and logic?

 

 

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