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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... Sensibility—Philosophical Sources • 55 177 1. From John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) • 177 ... Sensibility in Literature • 189 1. “On Sympathy. By a Young Lady” (October 1752) • 189 2. “Ode to Sensibility ...
... sensibility as a structure of feeling, discussed in a later section of this Intro- duction, also contributed to the increasingly moral tone of the eighteenth-century world of letters.) Writing to Lloyd's Evening Post in 1767, an ...
... sensibility (discussed below) also encouraged writers to pay more attention to the social and sexual dimensions of foreign cultures. In a parallel development, once the European itinerary became familiar to British readers, travel ...
... sensibility mirrors Don Quixote's absorption in courtly romance . The plots of Voltaire's Candide ( 1759 ) and of Johnson's Rasselas , published in the same year , offered an Enlightenment spin on Cervantes which numerous eighteenth ...
... sensibility could indulge in novels such as Sarah Fielding's tragic David Sim- ple (1744) or Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), in which the protagonists struggle to maintain their sensitive humanity in the face of countless ...
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A Note on the Text | 53 |
Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental | 243 |
Select Bibliography | 257 |