A singular stroke of eloquence: Tristram Shandy’s typography

Authors

  • Peter de Voogd

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.423

Keywords:

Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, typography, print culture

Abstract

Between 1759 and 1767 Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy presented the reader with
four major typographical oddities: two black pages, a hand-marbled coloured leaf, a
series of squiggly woodcuts, and a woodcut depicting a flourish. This article describes the
technical difficulties these non-verbal textual elements present to publishers of Sterne’s
masterpiece, and argues that they are interconnected.

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Published

2018-09-20

How to Cite

de Voogd, P. (2018). A singular stroke of eloquence: Tristram Shandy’s typography. Nordic Journal of English Studies, 17(S1), 74–84. https://doi.org/10.35360/njes.423

Issue

Vol. 17 No. S1 (2018): Special Issue: Visual Poetics

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