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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... French class system—from beggars, monks, and shopgirls, to Counts, ladies, and philosophers—yet the undertones of social and political critique never fully surface, and Yorick's sentimental affection for the poor is held in check by his ...
... n.3. 4 Letters, 405. The French phrase translates as “but that won't prevent—,” and is left playfully incomplete. 1 The so-called Journal to Eliza was first published, in A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY 15.
... French than Tristram, and A Sentimental Journey is notably free from the antiCatholicism that suffuses Tristram Shandy and many other eighteenth-century travelogues.2 In other respects, both of Sterne's fictionalized travel accounts ...
... French Revolution, the literature and culture of sensibility were dismissed as mawkish and absurd by the Victorians and by many twentieth-century critics. It is only really in the last thirty years that proper attention has been paid to ...
... French philosopher, René Descartes, who had insisted in the superiority of thought over the senses. The changes wrought in British philosophy during the early eighteenth century exerted a tremendous and more radical influence in France ...
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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 |