[Woolf, Virginia] Sterne, Laurence.

A Sentimental Journey Through France And Italy: with an introduction by Virginia Woolf.

[First Edition. Limited printrun of 5000 copies. Kirkpatrick B 7]. London, Oxford University Press, 1928. 9.5 x 15.5cm. (17), 233 pages. Original hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent condition with only minor signs of shelf wear. Previous owner’s name on front free endpaper. [Oxford World’s Classics, No. 333].

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. In 1765, 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. 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. 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. The book is less eccentric and more elegant in style than Tristram Shandy and was better received by contemporary critics. It was published on 27 February, and on 18 March Sterne died. [wikipedia]

• Keywords: Catalogue No.10 – International Literature · English Literature – Rare · Fiction · France · Italy · Journeys · Travel
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 91165AB

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