ENGC39H3 Lecture Notes - Shandy, Michel De Montaigne, Gambling
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Unsettled childhood mostly in ireland, often separated from parents. Family background prosperous, but immediate family down on their luck: Educated at cambridge, became a rural clergyman (yorkshire: quite dedicated. Also devoted to life of partier: enjoyed company of women, wasn"t gambler, but did like to drink and be social, completely in keeping with his singular literary career and contributions, why were clergymen characters so popular. Married to much older woman, had one daughter devoted to him: had many other relationships with women (public) Rose to prominence in 1759 through satirical pamphlet, local area: liked rabelais and swift. Suffered from poor health (respiratory problems) which prompted his journey to france and italy. Post-a political romance (the pamphlet), wrote his most famous novel tristan shandy: overnight sensation, toast of literary world, appears in own novel as the village parson yorick, reappears in sermons and a. His books were full of bawdy wit and eroticism inappropriate to a clergyman.
