Information about A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy
) The Monk of Calais (1780) by Angelica Kauffman, depicting Pastor Yorick exchanging snuffboxes with Father Lorenzo "..having a horn snuff box in his hand, he presented it open to me.--You shall taste mine--said I, pulling out my box and putting it into his hand." | |
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
|---|---|
| Country | Britain |
| Language | English |
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| Publication date | 1768 |
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Irish author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, 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. (Sterne met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongely objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.)
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. Throughout the 1770's women travel writers began publishing significant numbers of sentimental travel accounts. Sentiment also became a favorite style among those expressing non-mainstream views including political radicalism.
The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised alter ego. The book recounts his various adventures, usually of the amorous type, in a series of self-contained episodes. The book is less eccentric and more elegant in style than Tristram Shandy and was received better by contemporary critics. It was published on February 27, and on March 18 Sterne died.
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Angelica Kauffmann
Angelica Kauffmann.
Birth name Maria Anna Angelika
October 30, 1741
Chur,Graubünden, Switzerland
November 5, 1807
Rome, Italy
Austrian
Painting
Neoclassicism
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Angelica Kauffmann.
Birth name Maria Anna Angelika
October 30, 1741
Chur,Graubünden, Switzerland
November 5, 1807
Rome, Italy
Austrian
Painting
Neoclassicism
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Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2] (French)
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"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
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Official language of: 53 countries
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ISO 639-1: en
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Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 – March 18, 1768) was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next 10 years.
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Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March, 1721 – 17 September, 1771) was a Scottish author, best known for his picaresque novels, such as Roderick Random (1748) and Peregrine Pickle (1753).
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Travels through France and Italy is travel literature by Tobias Smollett published in 1766.
After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April of 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year.
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After suffering the loss of his only child, 15-year-old Elizabeth, in April of 1763, Smollett left England in June of that year.
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Smelfungus, a name given by Laurence Sterne to Tobias Smollett as author of a volume of Travels through France and Italy, for the snarling abuse he heaps on the institutions and customs of the countries he visited; a name Carlyle assumes when he has any seriously severe
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