Introduction: Sterne and theory ; Sterne and theory in the twentieth century ; Sterne and theory in the 1980s & 1990s -- Sexualism and the citizen of the world: Wycherley, Sterne and male homosexual desire / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Laurence Sterne and the "sociality" of the novel / John Mullan -- Words for sex: the verbal-sexual continuum in Tristram Shandy / Ruth Perry -- Job's wife and Sterne's other women / Melvyn New -- Uncrystallized flesh and blood: the body in Tristram Shandy / Juliet McMaster -- Running out of matter: the body exercised in eighteenth-century fiction / Carol Houlihan Flynn -- Sterne, Burton, and Ferriar: allusions to the anatomy of melancholy in volumes V to IX of Tristram Shandy / H.J. Jackson -- Sterne's system of imitation / Jonathan Lamb -- Narrative middles: a preliminary outline / J. Hillis Miller -- On Sterne's page: spatial layout, spatial form, and social spaces in Tristram Shandy / Christopher Fanning.
