Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey : : A Legacy to the World / / ed. by W. B. Gerard, M-C. Newbould.

Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy continues to be as widely read and admired as upon its first appearance. Deemed more accessible than Sterne’s Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and often assigned as a college text, A Sentimental Journey has received its...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.) :; 4 b-w images, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Introduction: A Sentimental Journey’s Critical Legacies
  • 1 Refining Masculinity in Yorick’s Journey: Courtesy, Chivalry, Gallantry
  • 2 Yorick’s War: Patriot Politics, Military Men, and Willing Women in A Sentimental Journey
  • 3 Sterne’s Journey into Animal Affect
  • Part Two: Words, Structures, Things
  • 4 Spatial Digression and the Borders of Knowledge in A Sentimental Journey
  • 5 (O)economy and Order: Laurence Sterne’s Chaptering
  • 6 Yorick’s Speech and the Starling’s Song: The Limits of Elocution in A Sentimental Journey
  • 7 Things of the Spirit: Vibrant Matter in A Sentimental Journey
  • Part Three: Historical Contexts, Rewritten Texts
  • 8 Boswell and Sterne in 1768
  • 9 The Shadow of Eliza: Sterne’s Underplot in A Sentimental Journey
  • 10 Debt, Death, and Literary Inheritance: The Ends of Sterne and A Sentimental Journey
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributor
  • Index