About the Author

Melvyn New, professor of English and former chair of the English Department at the University of Florida, is the author of Telling New Lies: Seven Essays in Fiction, Past and Present (UPF, 1992), Laurence Sterne as Satirist: A Reading of "Tristram Shandy" (1969), and the general editor of The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy and its annotation, vols. 1-3, UPF, 1978-84).