Dialectic of Whimsy.
Strategically generalizing from a close reading of the character-system and narrative style of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759–1767), this article proposes that whimsicality is an aesthetic category of eighteenth-century culture attuned to the agrarian dynamics of commercial capitalism. Situ...
| Published in: | Eighteenth Century Fiction Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 98 - 115 |
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University of Toronto Press
Jan2025
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