Shandean

English Etymology From en Shandy an. Adjective Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne. en 1858 John Cordy Jeaffreson Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria 278 It was commenced when the author was in a Shandean fever, and burned to outstrip Sterne. Without any disguise as to who his model was he opened his vapid tale with a scene in which Yorick's manner was broadly caricatured, but which en 1996 David Pierce; Peter Jan de Voogd Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism Rodopi 9789042000025 157 The 'Fragment' may instead suggest another key of access to try in the inter-textual journey from the Shandean writer to the Pantagruelist in virtue of the 'poor Homenas', who is the homonym of that ludicrous bishop of Papimany in the Fourth See also en Sternean en eponyms