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'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.
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