Focusing on the sentimental vignette of Laurence Sterne’s character of poor Maria, who is introduced in both Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, this presentation will introduce a hitherto neglected aspect of her reception: material-textual versions of the figure based on a design by Angellica Kauffman. Recognized as a paradigmatic visual-interpretive casting of Sterne’s Maria, Kauffman’s design circulated initially in the form of a print but was subsequently adopted for a varied and multi-modal material culture ranging from jewellery and silkwork pictures to furniture and porcelain. These visually enhanced media served as storytelling devices that shaped both the readability of Kauffman’s Maria and an understanding of Sterne’s source text, at the same time that the objects’ use and purpose informed how they contributed to rendering the character’s story. The presentation will contextualize how the image of Maria transplanted onto a range of material culture signified as part of the reading history of Sterne’s vignette but also how issues of gendered reading and making adapted the character for different ends, including courtship and mourning.
Sandro Jung
Sandro Jung is Grade II Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University. He is also Jack Ma Distinguished Professor at Hangzhou Normal University and Distinguished Professor at Hexi University. A Past President of the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, a former Senior Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the recipient of two European Union Marie Curie long-term fellowships, Jung has been the Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly A&HCI journal, ANQ (Routledge / Taylor & Francis) for the past 11 years. He, furthermore, serves as General Editor of the Lehigh University Press book series, Studies in Text and Print Culture. His main areas of scholarly interest are the literature, culture, and media of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, book and reception history, translation studies, and visual culture (and especially illustration) studies. He has produced more than 200 publications, including more than 130 A&HCI articles. He is the author, among other monographs, of David Mallet, Anglo-Scot: Poetry, Politics, and Patronage in the Age of Union (2008), The Fragmentary Poetic: Eighteenth-Century Uses of an Experimental Mode (2009), James Thomson’s The Seasons, Print Culture, andVisual Interpretation, 1730-1842 (2015), The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760-1825 (2017), Kleine artige Kupfer: Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert (2018), and Eighteenth-Century Illustration, and Literary Material Culture (2023).
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