A Sentimental Journey through France and ItalyBroadview Press, 25.08.2010 - 264 Seiten The quintessential novel of sentiment, A Sentimental Journey masquerades as the fragmentary travel journal of Parson Yorick, a whimsical and amorous Englishman abroad. Accompanied through Paris and the provinces by his loyal French valet, Yorick enjoys a variety of sentimental and often comic encounters with a lively range of French characters. The novel is also punctuated by passages of self-conscious reflection on questions of personal and national identity, slavery and freedom, poverty and inequality. Appendices include material on sensibility in philosophy and literature and on eighteenth-century travel writing, as well as excerpts from Sterne’s other writings and examples of the novel’s critical reception, imitation, and illustration. |
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... cultural loss. Ralph Griffiths, editor of the influential Monthly Review and one of Sterne's greatest admirers, lamented “the fatal hiatus of DEATH” which “put at once a final period to the ramblings and the writings of the inimitable ...
... cultural value of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century, see Michael Dobson, The Making of the National Poet Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Authorship, 1660-1769 (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1992). On the use of Shakespeare in novels of the ...
... cultural authority of the literary reviews, the Monthly Review (established in 1749), and the Critical Review (1756). The continuing expansion of the reading public to include younger readers made critics more anxious about the ...
... cultural finish required by their class.3 The middle classes disapproved of the aristocratic Grand Tour, judging it a means of importing into Britain a host of decadent foreign fashions as well as venereal diseases (for which the ...
... cultural influence of sensibility (discussed below) also encouraged writers to pay more attention to the social and sexual dimensions of foreign cultures. In a parallel development, once the European itinerary became familiar to British ...
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A Brief Chronology | 47 |
A Note on the Text | 53 |
SensibilityPhilosophical Sources | 177 |
From Adam Smith The Theory of Moral Sentiments | 185 |
From Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram | 191 |
Sensibility and Social Reform | 200 |
Sternes Didacticism | 207 |
From Laurence Sterne The Sermons of Mr Yorick | 209 |
Travel Writing | 217 |
From Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 1767 | 224 |
From Sentiments on the Death of the Sentimental Yorick | 230 |
From Cornelius Cayley A Tour through Holland Flanders | 237 |
A Sentimental Journey Anthologized | 241 |
From Hannah More Coelebs in Search of a Wife | 254 |