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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... interest in publishing accounts of their travels.2 Most GrandTourists were young men of university age, “transported by the cruelty of parents and guardians,” as Yorick puts it (p. 64), on a tour of the great cities and ancient sites of ...
... interest in “manners and customs” and the aesthetic appeal of landscape and works of art. The growing cultural influence of sensibility (discussed below) also encouraged writers to pay more attention to the social and sexual dimensions ...
... interests of travelogue and fiction converge, and A Sentimental Journey—for all its oddity—is very much of its time. Particularly in Tristram Shandy, Sterne synthesizes numerous types of literature (serious and comic, learned and ...
... interest in contemporary French thought. In an important essay on Sterne's Parisian sojourns, Martin C. Battestin has described how Sterne socialized with “several of the most radical and influential of the philosophes,” most of whom ...
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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 |