Abstract
Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (1768), an anti-travelogue in the same sense that Tristram Shandy is an anti-novel, touches upon two extremes — satire and/or pornography vs. sentimentalism — that were dominant literary tastes of the epoch. This book, so notable for its lack of travel content, appears as a logical continuation and expansion of Tristram’s voyage to France (sans guide) in Book VII of Tristram Shandy.
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Notes
Walter F. Wright, Sensibility in English Prose Fiction 1760–1814 A Reinterpretation (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1937), p. 23.
Ibib. , p. 23. Wright identifies this conception of sensibility with Richardson and Cowper.
Ibib. , p. 24.
Ibib., p. 24.
Walter F. Wright, Sensibility in English Prose Fiction 1760–1814 A Reinterpretation (Urbana: University of Illinois, 1937), p. 15.
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick, ed. and with intro. by Gardner Stout (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), p. 25.
A Sentimental Journey, p. 79.
Ibid., pp. 84–85.
Ibid., p. 85, n. 134.
Ibid., p. 92.
Ibid., pp. 180–181.
Ibid., p. 272.
Monroe Engel, “Afterword” to L. Sterne, A Sentimental Journey and Journal to Eliza (New York: A Signet Classic, 1964), p. 197.
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Wilson, R.K. (1973). Sterne’s Sentimental Journey. In: The Literary Travelogue. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1997-2_2
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