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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... characters represents the whole gamut of the 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 ...
... character in Tristram Shandy be- fore becoming the narrator of A Sentimental Journey. Perhaps the most peculiar thing about Yorick as a character, in fact, is that he is dead: according to the chronology of Tristram Shandy, he dies in ...
... character from that “obscene Romance,” Tristram Shandy: “Must obscenity then be the handmaid to Religion—and must the exordium to a sermon, be a smutty tale?”2 This tone of moral outrage is characteristic of the controversy that ...
... and Others, ed. R.K. Root (London: Everyman, 1929; repr. 1986), 153. 5 Monthly Review 34 (1766), 420. 1 Tristram Shandy,VII.iv.434. 2 On national character in travel narrative, A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY 17.
... character also enabled writers to capitalize on the growing interest in British humour and eccen- tricity, which ... character in travel narrative, see Turner, British Travel Writers in Europe, 38-49. On national character and literary ...
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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 |