A Sentimental Journey (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- First Published: 1768
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Sentimental
- Time of Work: 1760’s
- Setting: France
- Principal Characters: Mr. Yorick, Madame de L, Madame de R, Count de B, La Fleur, Maria
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction, Sentimental fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Emotions, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Moral conditions, Wit or humor, Servants, Nobility
- Locales: Paris, France, Calais, France, Versailles, France
The Story:
Mr. Yorick felt no kinship with all the different kinds of travelers—the Idle Travelers, the Inquisitive Travelers, the Travelers of Necessity, the Simple Travelers, and the rest. He was a Sentimental Traveler. As such, he collected sentimental adventures as other tourists collected postcards of the points of interest they visited. Mr. Yorick had started his journey because a man had asked him, with a sneer, if he had ever been in France. Yorick had just made some statement on the French and did not like being answered so tartly merely because he did not have...
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