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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... century, and for many productive conversations over the years. Any edition of a classic text builds upon a tradition of schol- arship, and I am indebted to previous editors of A Sentimental Journey, who are listed in the Select ...
... century critics as a self-parodying novel, a postmodern work ahead of its time, Tristram Shandy was hailed in the eighteenth century as a comic novelty, but was also disparaged for its lewdness. Sterne (or Tristram) certainly misses no ...
... century was coming increasingly to associate consumption with wit, especially in male victims of the disease, one expert for example pronouncing that consumptives were “generally observ'd to be quick, full of Spirit, hasty, and of a ...
... century as the age of the novel, most readers were more likely to be immersed in a volume of religious instruction than in the latest fictional publication. Sterne's Sermons are classic examples of their genre, and were hailed by the ...
... Century Travel Writing If Tristram Shandy is a self-parodying novel, then A Sentimental Journey bears the same relationship to eighteenth-century travel writing. As a genre, in fact, travel writing was much more prolific than fiction ...
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A Note on the Text | 53 |
Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental | 243 |
Select Bibliography | 257 |