Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Older book, some wear-may have remainder mark & previous owner's name Standard-sized.

Older book, some wear-may have remainder mark & previous owner's name Standard-sized.

New York. 1977. Penguin Books. Reprinted Edition. Previous Owner's Name in

New York. 1977. Penguin Books. Reprinted Edition. Previous Owner's Name in Front, Otherwise Very Good in Wrappers. 0140430261. Edited by Graham Petrie. Introduction by A. Alvarez. 154 pages. paperback. Cover: W.P. Frith-'Scene in the Paris shop'. keywords: Penguin Classic Literature England Travel 18th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER-A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY is a novel by the Irish-born English 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 strongly 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 1770s female 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. inventory #31380.