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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... seems, nobly, to celebrate conversation and sympathy with the inhabitants of a country with which Britain was in fact at war, Yorick's charitable impulses are rarely untainted by the baser passions of pride and lust. Inspiring devotion ...
... seems to think themselves called upon by the public, to render it a minute account of their occupations, avocations, observations, and lucubrations, during their pilgrimage. Nay some, I have been informed, have so well prepared ...
... seems to have disdained the courtship model: the plot and character groupings of Tristram Shandy are resolutely masculine, and where women do appear they are either irritants, fools, ribald nuns, or tragic victims. A Sentimental Journey ...
... seems more alien to contemporary thought than it really is. Following a backlash around the time of the French Revolution, the literature and culture of sensibility were dismissed as mawkish and absurd by the Victorians and by many ...
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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 |