Closely Reading and Close Looking
(and Close Listening, Close Smelling, Close Touching, and Close Licking. And Close Dusting!)
Different page layouts and graphic design of the black pages in two different editions of Tristram Shandy. Notice how the effect of the page changes not only in the different black areas but on the proximity of that area to the text printed on the page.
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Alas Poor Yorick (the talking skull)
Kenneth Monkman, "Sterne, Hamlet, and Yorick"
Possible sources for the black pages in volume one of Tristram Shandy (courtesy of Melvyn New's note in the Florida edition.
Robert Fludd, Utriusque Cosmi maioris salicet et minoris metaphysica... (1617)
Christopher Fanning, "Sterne's Page"
Visual Editions’ Tristram Shandy website
Helen Williams, "'Alas, Poor YORICK!': Sterne's Iconography of Mourning"
"Tristram Shandy: the Art of Black Mourning Pages"
Kenneth Monkman, "Sterne, Hamlet, and Yorick"
