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.
| ISBN: | 9781551118888 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2010 |
| Author: | Laurence Sterne |
| Publisher: | Broadview Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 264 pages |
| Series: | Broadview Editions |
| Genres: |
Classics |