Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence SterneUniversity of Delaware Press, 2007 - 291 pages When Mr. and Mrs. Shandy stroll out to watch Toby and Trim march in formation to the Widow Wadman's house, they use a familiar occurrence to gauge the day of the week. The sight of Mr. Yorick's congregation emerging from the parish church tells them it is a Sunday; Mrs. Shandy provides the more specific information that it is Sacrament Sunday, which tells Mr. Shandy that it is the first Sunday of the month. Modern readers may slip over this brief exchange, but it is the gateway to a series of inquiries whose answers the original readers of Tristram Shandy would have taken for granted. Drawing on modern historical research and eighteenth-century texts, Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne answers these inquiries. |
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... Sterne , an arch- deacon in the Diocese of York and Laurence's uncle , was first his patron , then his enemy . Archdeacon Sterne's enmity was partly responsible for Parson Sterne's failure to rise in the Church . ( Continued on back ...
... Sterne , an arch- deacon in the Diocese of York and Laurence's uncle , was first his patron , then his enemy . Archdeacon Sterne's enmity was partly responsible for Parson Sterne's failure to rise in the Church . ( Continued on back ...
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... Sterne's role as a clergyman from a family of clerics is inseparable from his author- ship . Sitting in the Minster Library ( where he was a regular bor- rower ) , reading a pamphlet by his uncle , Jaques Sterne , I was conscious of the ...
... Sterne's role as a clergyman from a family of clerics is inseparable from his author- ship . Sitting in the Minster Library ( where he was a regular bor- rower ) , reading a pamphlet by his uncle , Jaques Sterne , I was conscious of the ...
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... Sterne felt in his own body ; that con- sciousness of the frailty of human existence , which would be rein- forced ... Sterne's clerical life , including descriptions of the churches he served . Cross's followers , how- ever , were not ...
... Sterne felt in his own body ; that con- sciousness of the frailty of human existence , which would be rein- forced ... Sterne's clerical life , including descriptions of the churches he served . Cross's followers , how- ever , were not ...
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... Sterne as Yorick , 10 despite its title and its tribute to Cross at the outset , which might lead an unwary reader to expect an examination of Sterne's clerical life , in fact deals with the twenty - year period of parish ministry ...
... Sterne as Yorick , 10 despite its title and its tribute to Cross at the outset , which might lead an unwary reader to expect an examination of Sterne's clerical life , in fact deals with the twenty - year period of parish ministry ...
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... Sterne's career , in this case by Peter Quennell , in which , reading of Sterne's first position in Lincolnshire , we learn that " the slum- bers of the Church of England during the fourth decade of the eighteenth - century were still ...
... Sterne's career , in this case by Peter Quennell , in which , reading of Sterne's first position in Lincolnshire , we learn that " the slum- bers of the Church of England during the fourth decade of the eighteenth - century were still ...
Contents
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The Church of England and Its Parishioners | 70 |
The Company of Preachers William Roses The Practical Preacher 1762 | 104 |
Mrs Yorick and the Midwife Roles for Women in the EighteenthCentury Church of England | 149 |
Guys and Monks AntiCatholicism in the Church of England | 183 |
The Shandean Liturgy | 215 |
Notes | 247 |
Glossary | 270 |
Bibliography | 279 |
Index | 288 |
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Page 242 - FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground ; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust ; in sure and certain hope of resurrection to eternal life...
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Page 242 - The descent of the hat was as if a heavy lump of clay had been kneaded into the crown of it. Nothing could have expressed the sentiment of mortality, of which it was the type and forerunner, like it, — his hand seemed to vanish from under it, — it fell dead, — the corporal's eye fixed upon it, as upon a corpse, and Susannah burst into a flood of tears.
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Page 240 - I have brought myself into such a situation, as no traveller ever stood before me; for I am this moment walking across the market-place of Auxerre with my father and my uncle Toby, in our way back to dinner — and I am this moment also entering Lyons with my postchaise broke into a thousand pieces — and I am moreover this moment in a handsome pavillion built by Pringello*, upon the banks of the Garonne, which Mons. Sligniac has lent me, and where I now sit rhapsodizing all these affairs.
Page 242 - God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.