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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... thing about Yorick as a character, in fact, is that he is dead: according to the chronology of Tristram Shandy, he dies in 1748, thirty years after Tristram himself is born,. 1 Ian Campbell Ross, Laurence Sterne: A Life (Oxford: Oxford ...
... , “Travellers, Pirates, and Pilgrims,” 60-118 and Percy Adams, Travelers and Travel Liars 1660-1800 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: U of California P, 1962). 1 See Mark Blackwell ed., The Secret Life of Things: 22 INTRODUCTION.
... Things: Animals, Objects, and ItNarratives in Eighteenth-Century England (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2007). 2 See Paula Backscheider and John Richetti eds, Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730: An Anthology (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996). 3 See ...
... things in the world, and the relationship between ideas and words is not innate but arbitrary. Sterne's texts poke fun at attempts to systematize these inter-related concepts of personal identity and language, but they are also deeply ...
... things, and there was no need to envisage a supervising deity. Smith, however, retained a traditional Christian framework, delineating a world overseen by a benevolent, though not terribly interventionist, God. (In The Wealth of Nations ...
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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 |