A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings
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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings by Laurence Sterne
'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling. This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for Sterne's literary career. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Melvyn New, professor emeritus of English at the University of Florida, is the editor of the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, which includes Tristram Shandy (three volumes), Sterne's sermons (two volumes), and the works Sentimental Journey and Bramine's Journal (Journal to Eliza). He is the author of more than fifty critical writings on Sterne and editor of numerous editions. Peter de Voogd, professor emeritus of English at the University of Utrecht, is the founding editor of The Shandean. The author of numerous essays on Sterne, he is the coeditor of Laurence Sterne in Modernism and Postmodernism and The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199537181 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199537186 |
| Title | A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings |
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2008-08-14 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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