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Yorick's congregation : the Church of England in the time of Laurence Sterne

"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. While focused on the work of Laurence Sterne, the book, with its illustrations, glossary, and bibliography, will be useful for all scholars and students of the period."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Delaware Press, Newark, ©2007
History
291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780874139556, 0874139554
71288705
Introduction
Archbishops and mountebanks : going into the family business
The Church of England and its parishioners
The company of preachers : William Rose's The practical preacher (1762)
Mrs. Yorick and the midwife : roles for women in the eighteenth-century Church of England
Guys and monks : anti-Catholicism in the Church of England
The Shandean liturgy