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A singular stroke of eloquence: <i>Tristram Shandy</i>’s typography

Author(s) -

PETER DE VOOGD

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

nordic journal of english studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.18

H-Index - 8

eISSN - 1654-6970

pISSN - 1502-7694

DOI - 10.35360/njes.423

Subject(s) - typography , english language , order (exchange) , field (mathematics) , art , linguistics , sociology , media studies , visual arts , philosophy , business , mathematics , finance , pure mathematics

Between 1759 and 1767 Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy presented the reader with four major typographical oddities: two black pages, a hand-marbled coloured leaf, a series of squiggly woodcuts, and a woodcut depicting a flourish. This article describes the technical difficulties these non-verbal textual elements present to publishers of Sterne’s masterpiece, and argues that they are interconnected.

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