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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... Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations (1749) • 182 5. From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) • 185 Appendix B: Sensibility in Literature • 189 1. “On Sympathy. By a Young Lady” (October 1752) ...
... observe, “we know of no compositions of this 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 ...
... observed that “The English are beyond all doubt the greatest travellers in the world, for in all places on the continent, which are frequented by strangers, we find the number of Englishmen greatly to exceed that of all other nations ...
... observations, and lucubrations, during their pilgrimage. Nay some, I have been informed, have so well prepared ... observation as if they were conducted through France and Italy blindfold.”5 Most travelogues published during the ...
... observations about the French than Tristram, and A Sentimental Journey is notably free from the antiCatholicism that suffuses Tristram Shandy and many other eighteenth-century travelogues.2 In other respects, both of Sterne's ...
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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 |