Laurence sterne's Tristram Shandy : a study of Sterne's character as a misogynist

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The idea of this research is to show how Laurence Sterne appears as a misogynist, a women hater in his novel, Tristram Shandy which is written during the 1760s in the eighteenth century.

It shows this through different ways : first by pointing to the voice Sterne uses in narrating Tristram Shandy's story in addition to the kind of his readers–he is biased to male readers in specific when he uses bawdy words, having direct or indirect sexual connotations that stir sexual caprice in males, second by measuring the space given to human female, and by studying the way she is presented by the author if she is given any role to mention in comparison to the way her counterpart is portrayed, and third by referring to the nature of Sterne's relationships with women in his life, which point to the psychological motive behind his misogyny