[NON-BLOG] An Upcoming Paper
Apr. 14th, 2004 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldToday while nursing a sore tooth (my sole remaining baby tooth, actually never extracted because its replacement was impacted), I printed off seven articles from JSTOR archives for my upcoming paper on Laurence Sterne, hopefully to be submitted at a reasonably early date on Friday. Later on, I'll be submitting one paper on the critical role of Tudor statesmen in using education to create an English nation-state, and another on the way in which the figure of Joseph in medieval English passion plays relates to medieval family structures. Sterne, though, is due first.
My Sterne paper focuses (or will focus) on the character of Yorick, described in Tristram Shandy as a lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Danish Yorick, as a traveller in A Sentimental Journey. The nature of Anglo-French relations in the 18th century will be a major theme of this paper, particularly inasmuch as there was an oscillation between English emulation and admiration of French culture and Franco-British military, commercial, religious, and ideological competition. Too, both tourism and nationalism--at least in the readings I'm using--appear to have had their origins in the same dynamic emerging capitalism that created the print culture which supported Sterne's writings. I'm try to describe Yorick as an attempt at a liminal character, still fundamentally English but caught by the ambiguity of the time into an authentic sympathy for the French.
Well, that's what I intend to write. Here's hoping I get it done.
My Sterne paper focuses (or will focus) on the character of Yorick, described in Tristram Shandy as a lineal descendant of Shakespeare's Danish Yorick, as a traveller in A Sentimental Journey. The nature of Anglo-French relations in the 18th century will be a major theme of this paper, particularly inasmuch as there was an oscillation between English emulation and admiration of French culture and Franco-British military, commercial, religious, and ideological competition. Too, both tourism and nationalism--at least in the readings I'm using--appear to have had their origins in the same dynamic emerging capitalism that created the print culture which supported Sterne's writings. I'm try to describe Yorick as an attempt at a liminal character, still fundamentally English but caught by the ambiguity of the time into an authentic sympathy for the French.
Well, that's what I intend to write. Here's hoping I get it done.
