Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence SterneUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 291 páginas When Mr. and Mrs. Shandy stroll out to watch Toby and Trim march in formation to the Widow Wadman's house, they use a familiar occurrence to gauge the day of the week. The sight of Mr. Yorick's congregation emerging from the parish church tells them it is a Sunday; Mrs. Shandy provides the more specific information that it is Sacrament Sunday, which tells Mr. Shandy that it is the first Sunday of the month. Modern readers may slip over this brief exchange, but it is the gateway to a series of inquiries whose answers the original readers of Tristram Shandy would have taken for granted. Drawing on modern historical research and eighteenth-century texts, Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne answers these inquiries. |
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... reason , and that lack of belief must be evidence of stupidity . While such theology might be comforting to those in the pew , who may be confident in their own rational and virtuous condition , it is hard to imagine its converting the ...
... reason , and that lack of belief must be evidence of stupidity . While such theology might be comforting to those in the pew , who may be confident in their own rational and virtuous condition , it is hard to imagine its converting the ...
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... reason , or to the " nature of things , " one of the touchstone tags of the rationalist group . There are many like Sterne who appeal instead to a combination of psychol- ogy and common sense , the idea that sinfulness is an unavoidable ...
... reason , or to the " nature of things , " one of the touchstone tags of the rationalist group . There are many like Sterne who appeal instead to a combination of psychol- ogy and common sense , the idea that sinfulness is an unavoidable ...
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... Reason can raise against them ; nay , Holiness it self , unless well grown , and deeply rooted , can scarcely resist the Contagion which ill Company spreads . " 94 He returns to the uses of reason at the end of the ser- mon , but ...
... Reason can raise against them ; nay , Holiness it self , unless well grown , and deeply rooted , can scarcely resist the Contagion which ill Company spreads . " 94 He returns to the uses of reason at the end of the ser- mon , but ...
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List of Illustrations | 11 |
Introduction | 17 |
Going into the Family | 31 |
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