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- Title
TRIM(-TRAM), LIKE MASTER, LIKE MAN: SERVANT AND SEXTON IN STERNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY AND A POLITICAL ROMANCE.
- Authors
Ross, Ian Campbell; Nassar, Noha Saad
- Abstract
The article focuses on the common name between the sexton in "A Political Romance" and Uncle Toby's servant in "Tristram Shandy." They share the name of Trim. The fact of the shared name is remarkable both because Laurence Sterne's characters are few and the name uncommon, and because the "real" name of Toby's servant is not Trim at all, but James Butler. Critics have considered, or alluded to, the question without finding a satisfactory answer. That answer is, though, both simple and critically useful.
- Subjects
NAMES; STERNE, Laurence, 1713-1768; LIFE &; Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The (Book); POLITICAL Romance, A (Book); CHARACTER; CRITICS; LITTERATEURS
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 1989, Vol 36, Issue 1, p62
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/36-1-62b