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hypertext version of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, by Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768). The text itself is taken from the third and first editions of the book, and laid out as it was in the original print versions. It includes links to secondary and reference materials, placing the text in a non-linear environment in which the user may explore various issues and themes. The web site includes a number of categorised subsections via which the user may broaden his appreciation of the text. These include pages devoted specifically to art, fashion, history, structure, Irishness, language and rhetoric, music, the novel, poetry, and science.

This project aims to recognize and analyse the intellectual legacy of British and Irish authors in the European cultural tradition. It examines the ways in which selected British and Irish writers in various humanistic disciplines have been translated, published, reviewed and discussed in Europe over the last few centuries. The project is being published under the title 'The Athlone Critical Traditions: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe', an open-ended, multi-volume series published by Continuum. Publications are listed from 2003 to the present and deal with the reception of several authors, including: Laurence Sterne; James Joyce; Walter Pater; Ossian and James Macpherson; D. H. Lawence; Sir Walter Scott; Jane Austen; Coleridge; Charles Darwin; Shelley; Byron; H. G. Wells; Jonathan Swift; David Hume; Yeats; and Henry James