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| Despite their historical proximity, the immediacy of Richardson's epistolary method scarcely resembles the urbane detachment of Fielding's style or the sportive digressiveness of Sterne's approach. Highly structured argument--in which the outcome was known by the author from the beginning, digressiveness was a fault to be kept in check, and the mind was organized within an inch of its life--not only took less care for the needs of the ear, but led to a studied emotional disengagement, and eventually undercut the force of religious prose. Observing Burton's generic playfulness and extreme digressiveness, his citations of authority that serve to undermine authority per se, his "attempt at order that manifests disorder, a strategy of completeness that testifies to incompleteness" (110), Seelig discovers "similarities of attitude and method" (129) between Anatomy and Tristram Shandy, with which it shares "an essentially similar approach to the process of composition" (129). |
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