About the Author

Melvyn New, professor emeritus of English at the University of Florida, is the editor of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, which includes Tristram Shandy (three volumes), Sterne's sermons (two volumes), and the works Sentimental Journey and Bramine's Journal (Journal to Eliza). He is the author of more than fifty critical writings on Sterne and editor of numerous editions. Peter de Voogd, professor emeritus of English at the University of Utrecht, is the fouding editor of The Shandean. The author of numerous essays on Sterne, he is the coeditor of Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism and The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe.

Reviews

Establishes a newly authoritative and fully documented text of all remaining letters, based on fresh examination of the relevant manuscript and early printed sources and implementing, with unflagging rigor, state of the art editorial practice. Annotation is clear, astute, and comprehensive, and draws with exemplary command on the mass of biographical, bibliographical, and other scholarship that has transformed our understanding of Sterne and the culture he inhabited. - Thomas Keymer, University of Toronto ""The editors have done a splendid job of annotating the letters with clarity while maintaining the highest levels of scholarship and learning. Their introduction is clear, candid, thoughtful, and informative. Their treatment of the vexed problems of the edition is a model of intelligent modern editing practice."" - Robert Folkenflik, University of California, Irvine (emeritus)