Volume 32 (2021) is printing now and will be sent to all subscribers end 2021. It has 212 pages and 18 illustrations, mostly in colour. The beautiful marbling on the cover is from the 1775 ‘New Edition’ of Tristram Shandy, Volume 3, p. 22. See Contents and Abstracts and how to order Volume 32 (2021).
2022 - Volume 33
The next Volume 33 (2022) will be the last volume of The Shandean in its present printed & paid form and can be ordered here. More information of this last and special volume will follow later.
2023 - From print to open access
From 2023 onwards we will continue - free of charge - in open access format as The Shandean Online via the same and well-known website shandean.org.
This is the marbling on the cover of the new volume of The Shandean Volume 32 (2021). The marbling is from the 1775 ‘New Edition’ of Tristram Shandy, volume 3, p. 22.
The Shandean Volume 32 (2021) will be published in November 2021.
Fourth International Laurence Sterne Foundation Conference, Naples 2021 Palazzo Du Mesnil - Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 October 2021
Sterne and the Grand Tour: Places, Postures, Portraits … and here I am, as happy as a king after all, growing fat, sleek, and well-liking —not improving in stature, but in breadth. We have a jolly carnival of it — nothing but opera-punchinelloes-festinos and masquerades — (Letters, 269, to John Hall Stevenson, Naples, 5 February 1766)
Sterne’s eccentric Grand Tour through Italy culminated in Naples, where he arrived ‘Shandaically’ enough just in time for the pre-Lenten festivities in February 1766. As the epigraph makes clear, he seemed utterly in tune with the intoxicating festive mood pervading the town and was impressed by the local celebrations, especially the renowned fêtes and masquerades given by Eleonora Borghese, Principessa Francavilla, at the gorgeous Palazzo Cellamare with its luxuriant gardens.
For the Fourth Conference in Naples the ILSF warmly welcomes proposals that focus on Sterne’s artful investment in all aspects related to the Grand Tour. Topics may include the following:
The Grand Tour in the eighteenth century and Sterne’s narrative ’detours’
Sterne in Italy between antique and modern arts
Sterne and learned wit
The metaphor of writing as travelling and Sterne’s travesties and postures
Sterne’s authorial masks and the festive repertoire of the carnivalesque
We also welcome proposals for themed panels.
Abstracts (max 300 words) should be sent to Peter de Voogd ([email protected]) and to Maria Laudando ([email protected]). The deadline is 31 July 2021.
Conference fee Before 10 August: €80 - non-waged €60 After 10 August: €100 - non-waged €80 Conference dinner: €30
Payment - in Euro by bank transfer: made payable to St. Int. Sterne Foundation IBAN: NL92 INGB 0006252439 - Bic/Swift: INGBNL2A or - inEuro via PayPal: account name:[email protected]
To register Please email to [email protected] stating your name, affiliation, and payment details.
Where & when We do hope to be able to host the Conference “live” in Naples at Palazzo Du Mesnil (Via Partenope 10/A, with access in Via Chiatamone 61/62) from 28 to 30 October 2021. In case of persisting restrictions due to the ongoing global pandemic, the event will be postponed to March 2022.
The marbling on the cover of The Shandean Volume 31 (2020) is from the 2020 Folio Society Limited Edition of Tristram Shandy, with a tipped-in hand-marbled leaf by Jemma Lewis on page 173.
The marbling on the cover of The Shandean Volume 31 (2020) is from the 2020 Folio Society Limited Edition of Tristram Shandy, with a tipped-in hand-marbled leaf by Jemma Lewis on page 173.
The marbling on the cover of Volume 30 (2019) is taken from Tristram Shandy, A New Edition, Altenburgh: for Richter and Boehme, 1772, volume 3 between pp. 10-11, varnished with gum, verso blank.
The marbling on the cover of Volume 30 (2019) is taken from Tristram Shandy, A New Edition, Altenburgh: for Richter and Boehme, 1772, volume 3 between pp. 10-11, varnished with gum, verso blank.
The Third ILSF Sterne Conference will be held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 1pm Thursday 31 October 2019, till 1pm Saturday 2 November 2019. More information and Call for Papers.
The marbling on the cover of The Shandean, Volume 29 (2018) is from the 1985 Czech edition of Tristram Shandy by Odeon, with illustrations by Jiří Ŝalamoun, p. 185.
The marbling on the cover of The Shandean, Volume 29 (2018) is from the 1985 Czech edition of Tristram Shandy by Odeon, with illustrations by Jiří Ŝalamoun, p. 185.