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Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac (2020)
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Dickson, P. (2020). Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac. Comparative Literature, 72(1), 53-67. https://doi.org/10.1215/00104124-7909972

This article examines the figure of an undulating line, or “squiggle,” printed initially in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy and copied by two nineteenth-century writers: first, by the German E. T. A. Hoffmann, in a little-known fragment, and, secon... Read More about Tracing Squiggles: Laurence Sterne, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Honoré de Balzac.