Labyrinth of Digressions: Tristram Shandy as Perceived and Influenced by Sterne's Early Imitators

by R.P. Bosch, Rene Bosch (Writing as)

With their appearance during the 1760s, the five instalments of Laurence Sternes "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" caused something like a booksellers hype. Small publishers and anonymous imitators seized on Sternes success by

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 10, 2007

About the author

R.P. Bosch is a Dutch writer, philosopher and teacher, living and working in the Amsterdam area. He has published extensively on the history of ideas, in scholarly periodicals as well as for a general audience. In 2014 he published his first novel about the history of philosophy, 84 Namen. It was hailed by Dutch and Belgian reviewers as, a.o., 'the contemporary answer to Sophie's World' and 'a cinematic novel, deserving a broad audience.' Its follow-up 66 Boeken appeared in March 2018.