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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... published in 1768, many readers knew that its author had recently died, having produced only two of the four projected volumes. “This is the beginning of a work which death has commanded never to be finished,” an- nounced the London ...
... published in 1759 but suppressed by local clergy). Then, in December 1759, he had exploded onto the national literary scene with the publication of volumes I and II of Tristram Shandy, “the most talked-about work of English fiction ...
... publish. 1 Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, ed. Melvyn New and Joan New (London: Penguin, 2003), I.xii.27-30. 2 Tristram Shandy, I.x.19. 3 Clark Lawlor, Consumption and Literature: The Making of the ...
... published (1759-67). The timing is significant. The 1760s were less tolerant of naughtiness than were the 1750s ... published posthumously by Sterne's daughA further three volumes were published posthumously by Sterne's daughter Lydia ...
... published on 27 February 1768. Volumes III and IV would doubtless have taken him to Italy, had Sterne not died. The simultaneously “chaste” and “frolicksome” tone of A Sentimental Journey relates it to a parallel preoccupation 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 |