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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... novel that “made” Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, also made him into Tristram: readers and reviewers submerged the writer's identity in that of his fictive narrator, who spends most of the novel failing to describe his ...
... novels of the period, see Kate Rumbold, “'Alas, poor YORICK': Quoting Shakespeare in the Mid-Eighteenth- (continued) 1 Lloyd's Evening Post 20 (11-13 March 1767), 241. 2 A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY 13.
... novel, most readers were more likely to be immersed in a volume of religious instruction than in the latest fictional publication. Sterne's Sermons are classic examples of their genre, and were hailed by the Monthly Review as “models ...
... novel, then A Sentimental Journey bears the same relationship to eighteenth-century travel writing. As a genre, in fact, travel writing was much more prolific than fiction, certainly until the closing decades of the century; it was also ...
... novel, and admired the games Sterne played with the conventions of the genre.2 He had been playing them for a while: volume VII of Tristram Shandy had provided a comic account of Tristram's own Grand Tour, and volume IX had described ...
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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 |