A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick
Sterne's famous fictional travelogue was published in two volumes a month before his death in 1768, and is based on his two journeys abroad in 1762-64 and 1765. Sterne called it his Work of Redemption, presumably for the sins and errors committed in writing the greatest cock and bull story ever published in the form of Tristram Shandy. Through the amiable Parson Yorick, a character familiar to readers of Tristram Shandy, Sterne parodies the superior tone of the fashionable travel books of his time in which Europe was often compared unfavorably to England. His narrative seems to revere sentiment as the great measure of all experience--from nostalgia and melancholy to romance and extreme tenderness--while at the same time an ambiguous degree of irony wavers somewhere between Sterne and the voice of his narrator. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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