How Long to Read Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel

How Long Does it Take to Read Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 43 minutes to read Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel by Tom Keymer

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Thomas Keymer is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada. The author of Tristram Shandy (1759-67) is often seen as an anachronism - a belated exponent of learned-wit satire whose kinship is with Montaigne, or a proto-modernist whose narrative pyrotechnics anticipate Joyce. Yet to many contemporaries Sterne's writing was emphatically of its immediate time, a voguish compound of all things modern that seemed to typify, if not indeed constitute, a 'Shandy-Age'. In this historicizing study, Thomas Keymer demonstrates the self-conscious imbrication of Tristram Shandy in the diverse literary culture of its extended moment. Not only absorbing but also updating Swift's Tale of a Tub, Sterne's text turns the satirical resources of Scriblerian writing on the post-Scriblerian literary marketplace, and above all on that quintessentially modern genre, the novel itself. For all its anticipation of later trends, his play on narrative representation, linguistic indeterminacy, the unruliness of reading and the materiality of text turns out to be firmly grounded in the conventions and tropes of mid-eighteenth-century fiction. Through the mechanisms of improvisatory serialization, Sterne could also engage with other new texts and trends as they continued to emerge, including 'Nonsense Club' satire, the Ossianic vogue, and debates about the Seven Years War.

How long is Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel?

Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel by Tom Keymer is 222 pages long, and a total of 55,944 words.

This makes it 75% the length of the average book. It also has 68% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 5 minutes to read Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel aloud.

What Reading Level is Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel?

Sterne, the Moderns, and the Novel is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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