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- Title
ARE LAURENCE STERNE'S SERMONS FUNNY?
- Authors
Stark, Ryan J.
- Abstract
Laurence Sterne's sermons are earnest in the way we expect eighteenth-century Anglican sermons to be earnest, and the humour is relatively scarce and appropriate, or appropriately inappropriate, as the case might be. Regardless, I show that the humour is there, contrary to the widely held view that Sterne's sermons do not amuse. Moreover, some of the comic passages point to a neglected but crucial source of inspiration for Sterne's comic genius: the Bible, especially the Old Testament—that ancient repository of wisdom and proto-Shandean intrigue.
- Subjects
STERNE, Laurence, 1713-1768; EVANGELISTIC sermons; OLD Testament; HUMOR &; Christianity; FITZGERALD, Percy; GRAY, Thomas; CLERGY; PREACHING
- Publication
Literature & Theology, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 4, p456
- ISSN
0269-1205
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/litthe/frv026