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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... Writing • 217 1. From Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour (1749) • 217 2. From Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy (1766) • 218 a. From Letter V • 218 b. From Letter VII • 219 3. From Samuel Sharp, Letters from Italy (1766) ...
... writer's identity in that of his fictive narrator, who spends most of the novel failing to describe his own life and opin- ions, because he is continually sidetracked into digressive accounts of his family's quarrels and conversations ...
... Writing to Lloyd's Evening Post in 1767, an anonymous member of the public complains that Nothing sure disgraces the present age more, than to see a Clergyman continuing to give us, without any animadversion, up to the ninth volume of a ...
... writing a se- ries of letters addressed to a young married woman he had met shortly before she set sail to join her husband in India . " I steal something every day from my sentimental Journey to obey a 1 Lloyd's Evening Post 20 ( 11-13 ...
... writing. As a genre, in fact, travel writing was much more prolific than fiction, certainly until the closing decades of the century; it was also much more respectable, and received more coverage in the influential literary reviews.2 ...
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A Note on the Text | 53 |
Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental | 243 |
Select Bibliography | 257 |