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A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

ByLaurence Sterne

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written as Sterne was facing death. In 1765 Laurence Sterne travelled through France and Italy as far south as Naples, and after returning determined to describe his travels from a sentimental point of view. The novel can be seen as an epilogue to the possibly unfinished work The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental Travels through France and Italy. The novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century. Unlike prior travel accounts which stressed classical learning and objective non-personal points of view, A Sentimental Journey emphasized the subjective discussions of personal taste and sentiments, of manners and morals over classical learning.

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Publication Date
Feb 14, 2014
Language
English
ISBN
9781312014534
Category
Fiction
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Laurence Sterne

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Format
EPUB

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