Shandean
Shandean adjective: of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
Adjective
Shandean (comparative more Shandean, superlative most Shandean)
- Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
- It was commenced when the author was in a Shandean fever, and burned to outstrip Sterne. Without any disguise as to who his model was he opened his vapid tale with a scene in which Yorick's manner was broadly caricatured, but which […]1858, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria, page 278
- The 'Fragment' may instead suggest another key of access to try in the inter-textual journey from the Shandean writer to the Pantagruelist in virtue of the 'poor Homenas', who is the homonym of that ludicrous bishop of Papimany in the Fourth […]1996, David Pierce, Peter Jan de Voogd, Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 157
Forms of Shandean
| comparative | more Shandean |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Shandean |
Origin of Shandean
From Shandy + -an.
Questions about Shandean
- What does Shandean mean?
- Shandean means of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
- What part of speech is Shandean?
- Shandean is an adjective.
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