Shandean

Shandean

English

Etymology

Shandy +‎ -an

Adjective

Shandean (comparative more Shandean, superlative most Shandean)

1. Of or relating to The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, a novel by Laurence Sterne.
   • 1858, John Cordy Jeaffreson, Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria, page 278:

     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 […]

   • 1996, David Pierce; Peter Jan de Voogd, Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism, Rodopi, →ISBN, page 157:

     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 […]

See also

• Sternean