This collection of thirteen essays is in honor of the distinguished scholarly career of Melvyn New, Professor Emeritus of the University of Florida. The first eight essays offer various critical perspectives on a diverse group of eighteenth-century authors. Subjects include Pope and Eliot, Swift and Nietzsche, Sterne and Gainsborough, Johnson, Smollett, Lyttelton, and Fielding. The final five essays focus specifically on Sterne, the primary subject of Professor New's career of more than four decades. Contributors are both former students and colleagues and come from the United States, England, and France. They are Martha F. Bowden, Taylor Corse, W. G Day, Madeleine Descargues-Grant, Elizabeth Kraft, Joseph G. Kronick, James E. May, Frank Palmeri, Eric Rothstein, Donald R. Wehrs, and the three co-editors, W. B. Gerard, E. Derek Taylor, and Robert G. Walker.
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Introduction: Selected Publications by Melvyn New I: Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
1. Alexander Pope, T. S. Eliot, and the Fate of Poetry
2. A Sentimental Journey through Thomas Gainsborough's "Cottage-door" Paintings
3. Johnson and Moral Argument: "We talked of the casuistical question . . "
4. Slavery in Roderick Random
5. The Printing and Publication of Three Folio Editions of George Lyttelton's To the Memory of a Lady Lately Deceased (1747-48)
6. Parson Adams's Sermons: Benjamin Hoadly and Henry Fielding
7. Joseph Andrews, Realism, and Openness
8. Satire and the Psychology of Religion in Swift and Nietzsche II: Perspectives on Laurence Sterne
9. Gershom Scholem's Reading of Tristram Shandy
10. Laurence Sterne, the Apostrophe, and American Abolitionism, 1788-1831
11. Attribution Problems in Sterne's Ecclesiastical and Secular Politickings
12. Sterne and the Miracle of the Fragment
13. The centrality of Sterne in the Culture of Modernity, or Melvyn New and the Rewriting of the West Notes on Contributors Index
