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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... never fully surface , and Yorick's sentimental affection for the poor is held in check by his admiration for the ruling classes , who flatter him by their attentions . In some ways a satire on the xenophobic tendencies of British ...
... never carried one single ounce of flesh upon his own bones,” Tristram tells us, and it is clear elsewhere that Yorick—like Tris- tram himself—suffers from the tubercular consumption that was to cause Sterne's own early death.2 Medical ...
... never uses his own name in the correspondence), who describes his frequent fits of fainting and weeping, and fantasizes about marrying her once their respective spouses have died. Amazingly, Sterne even writes to Eliza about the ...
... never expresses a desire to return to England. This is strikingly at odds with the con- ventional rhetoric of travel, ably summarized by Oliver Goldsmith in one of the few poetic treatments of European travel from this period, The ...
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A Note on the Text | 53 |
Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental | 243 |
Select Bibliography | 257 |