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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... Sympathy. By a Young Lady” (October 1752) • 189 2. “Ode to Sensibility” (November 1763) • 190 3. From Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759) • 191 4. From Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of ...
... 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 in its admirers, and provoking moral outrage ...
... sympathy. In this respect, A Sentimental Journey is both a foundational text and a sophisticated critique of the network of ideas delineated by the terms “sentiment” and “sensibility.” Sensibility: A Short History of Ideas In describing ...
... sympathy for others, and hence contributed to important programmes of political and humanitarian reform, including the abolition of the slave trade.2 Recent critical work interested in theatrical, affective, and non-realist ...
... Sympathy transcends the limitations of speech. During the early eighteenth century, the ideas of Newton and Locke were developed by other philosophers and medical men, and popularized through literary forms high and low: treatises ...
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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 |