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'In Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book, Helen Williams has written a careful, scholarly study of lasting value about Sterne as a book designer. No one has yet attempted so thorough and meticulous a study of Sterne's 'graphic and typographic ingenuity'. His audacious blank, black and marbled pages are placed in the context of other printed design materials -'print sources beyond the novel'. What Thomas Keymer did for Tristram Shandy's context of writing-identifying the antecedents for what seems'post-modern' in Tristram's floating world-Williams has done for the physical design of first editions of the book.' TLS Reviews '… written as a clear work of scholarship with all that that implies in language … Recommended.' R. Stone, Choice Magazine '… all readers will find much in this lucidly arranged, intelligently curated Wunderkammer of antecedents and developments to prompt serious reconsideration of Sterne …' Paul Baines, Eighteenth-Century Fiction '… a substantial and insightful study, which takes us significantly beyond previous discussions of Sterne's relationship to the book as material and visual artefact.' Shaun Regan, Modern Language Review 'Any and all further commentary on Sterne's experimental typography must begin with Williams, for in her thorough, eminently readable treatment of the effects of typography in Tristram Shandy, she uncovers new meaning as she excavates and elaborates the material context in which the novel first appeared.' Elizabeth Kraft, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cat

'In Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book, Helen Williams has written a careful, scholarly study of lasting value about Sterne as a book designer. No one has yet attempted so thorough and meticulous a study of Sterne's 'graphic and typographic ingenuity'. His audacious blank, black and marbled pages are placed in the context of other printed design materials -'print sources beyond the novel'. What Thomas Keymer did for Tristram Shandy's context of writing-identifying the antecedents for what seems'post-modern' in Tristram's floating world-Williams has done for the physical design of first editions of the book.' TLS Reviews '... written as a clear work of scholarship with all that that implies in language ... Recommended.' R. Stone, Choice Magazine

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Helen Williams is a Senior Lecturer in English at Northumbria University, researching eighteenth-century literature and book history. She has co-edited John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (2018) and has won a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (2019) for her work on the novel in the hand-press period.

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