Shandean Humour in English and German Literature and Philosophy

"One of many writers inspired by Laurence Sterne''s Tristram Shandy, the German novelist Jean Paul Richter coined the term ''Shandean humour'' in his work of aesthetic theory. The essays in this volume investigate how Sterne''s humour functions, the reasons for its enduring appeal, and what role it played in identity-construction and in the representation of melancholy. In tracing its hitherto und...