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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... fiction since Samuel Richardson had published Pamela” in 1740.1 Seven more volumes were to follow before Sterne abandoned Tristram in 1767 and turned his attention to A Sentimental Journey. To understand the appeal and the novelty of ...
... fictional publication. Sterne's Sermons are classic examples of their genre, and were hailed by the Monthly Review as “models for many of his brethren to copy from”: indeed, the reviewers observe, “we know of no compositions of this ...
... fiction, certainly until the closing decades of the century; it was also much more respectable, and received more coverage in the influential literary reviews.2 In 1766, not long before Sterne began work on A Sentimental Journey, the ...
... Fiction (New York: W.W. Norton, 1990), which reconstructs the vigorous low-life of print culture; Lennard Davis, Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (New York: Columbia UP, 1983), which argues that novels developed in ...
... fiction by Cervantes. (A quixotic hero, unlike the roguish picaro, tends to be in the grip of an ideal derived. and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987), which describes the impact of conduct ...
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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 |