Preface
Chronology of Sterne''s Life
The Text of Tristram Shandy
The Author on the Novel
　To Robert Dodsley
　To a Friend
　To Robert Dodsley
　To Dr. Noah Thomas
　To Jane [?] Fenton
　To Stephen Croft
　To John Hall-Stevenson
　To Lady Anna Dacre [?]
　To Robert Foley
　To Elizabeth Montagu
　To Robert Foley
Criticism
　Contemporary Responses
　　William Kenrick·Review of Tristram Shandy
　　From the Critical Review
　　From the London Magazine
　　From the Royal Female Magazine
　　Horace Walpole·Letter to Sir David Dalrymple
　　Letter to the Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure
　　James Boswell·From 'A Poetical Epistle'
　　Letter to Lloyd''s Evening Post
　　Thomas Gray·Letter to Thomas YVarton the Younger
　　Oliver Goldsmith·From The Citizen of the World
　　Edmund Burke·Review of Tristram Shandy
　　Samuel Richardson·Letter to Mark Hildesley
　　John Langhorne·Review of Tristram Shandy
　　Samuel Johnson·Conversation with Boswell
　Early-Nineteenth-Century Criticism
　　Samuel Taylor Coleridge·[Steme''s Wit and Humor]
　　William Hazlitt·[Sterne''s Style]
　　Sir Walter Scott·Laurence Sterne
　　William Makepeace Thackeray·Sterne and Goldsmith
　Twentieth-Century Studies
　　Lodwick Hartley·[The Genius of Laurence Sterne]
　　D. \V. Jefferson·Tristram Shandy and the Tradition of Learned Wit
　　Toby A. Olshin·Genre and Tristram Shandy:
The Novel of Quickness
　　Wayne Booth·Did Sterne Complete Tristram Shandy?
　　William Bowman Piper·Tristram''s Digressive Artistry
　　Martin Price·[The Art of the Natural]
　　Jean-Jacques Mayoux·Variations on the Time-Sense in Tristram Shandy
　　Richard A. Lanham·Games, Play, Seriousness
　　Sigurd Burckhardt·Tristram Shandy''s Law of Gravity
　　Howard Anderson·Tristram Shandy and the
Reader''s Imagination
　　J. Paul Hunter·Response as Reformation:
Tristram Shandy and the Art of Interruption
　　Charles Parish·A Table of Contents for Tristram Shandy
Bibliography