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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... kind in the English language, that are written with more ease, purity, and elegance.” But the Monthly was scandalized that the sermons were presented as the compositions of Yorick, a character from that “obscene Romance,” Tristram ...
... kind of travel book, “something new, quite out of the beaten track,” as he wrote to his daughter in February 1767, or his “work of Redemption” as he described it to a friend in September of the same year.3 Work on the book began in ...
... kind, in proportion to the number of travellers,” and explains that “The reason is plain: our travellers are in general young men of fortune, and are led by their tutors; and both of them, from the youth of one and the narrow education ...
... Kind of Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993) and Hal Gladfelder, Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001). 4 On travel in fiction, see Richetti, Popular Fiction before Richardson ...
... kind of amatory tourism, with no strings attached. No wonder, then, that in 1742, when Henry Fielding began crafting his consciously classical and epic versions of picaresque fiction, he felt obliged to differentiate “this kind of ...
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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 |