Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I. The Author and his Work: The Problem and the Scholarship -- II. The Man and the Novelist -- III. The Minister and the Novelist -- IV. The Transition from Minister to Novelist -- V. The Novel: From the Beginning to the Birth and the Misnaming of Tristram Shandy -- VI. The Novel: From the Beginning to the Final Comment of Yorick -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.