Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 291 g
Reihe: Broadview Editions
Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 291 g
Reihe: Broadview Editions
ISBN: 978-1-55111-888-8
Verlag: Broadview Press Ltd
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.
