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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... Yorick (they appeared in May 1760 in two volumes, with two more in 1766).1 On one level, this was simply a means by which Sterne could make money out of his own Sunday sermons, for although we now think of the eighteenth century as the ...
... Yorick's travels in France , were duly published on 27 February 1768. Volumes III and IV would doubtless have taken him to Italy , had Sterne not died . The simultaneously “ chaste " and " frolicksome " tone of A Sentimental Journey ...
... Yorick” (Sterne never uses his own name in the correspondence), who describes his frequent fits of fainting and weeping, and fantasizes about marrying her once their respective spouses have died. Amazingly, Sterne even writes to Eliza ...
... Yorick puts it (p. 64), on a tour of the great cities and ancient sites of Europe in order to acquire the cultural finish required by their class.3 The middle classes dis- approved of the aristocratic Grand Tour, judging it a means of ...
... Yorick's travelogue simply takes to its sen- timental conclusion a collection of cultural, formal, and stylistic trends that were already influencing the genre. Yet Yorick is an unusual traveller (as the ironic “Preface” buried several ...
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A Note on the Text | 53 |
Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental | 243 |
Select Bibliography | 257 |