In 2018, Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, the author’s ‘work of redemption,’ will have been entertaining, touching and outraging readers for 250 years. To mark the sestercentennial anniversary of its publication and Laurence Sterne’s death, we are pleased to issue a call for proposals for contributions to an essay collection, ‘A Legacy to the World’: New Approaches to Laurence Sterne’s ‘A Sentimental Journey’ and other Works. We are particularly interested in new explorations of affect, culture, gender, class, religion and nation, and in studies of connections between A Sentimental Journey and other works by Sterne and his contemporaries. Please send abstracts of 200-300 words to mcn23@cam.ac.uk by September 20, 2017; the collection’s anticipated publication is late 2018.

W. B. Gerard (Auburn University at Montgomery), Paul Goring (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and M.-C. Newbould (Cambridge University)