Rev Mr Yorick, Sterne's Sentimental Journey through deals France and Italy, pub., Thomas Tegg, London antique 1809 Georgian hardback book

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Product code: Rev Mr Yorick, Sterne's Sentimental Journey through deals France and Italy, pub., Thomas Tegg, London antique 1809 Georgian hardback book

Title: Sterne's 'Sentimental Journey through France and Italy'. Prefaced with 'Memoirs of the Life and Family of Laurence Sterne AM written by himself'.

Author: 'Mr Yorick'. The narrator is the Reverend Mr. Yorick, who is slyly represented to guileless readers as Sterne's barely disguised alter ego.

Edition: 'A new Edition'

Type: A small format hardback copy in green cloth boards with paper label to brown spine. Pages uncut.

Pages: 179

Illustrations: Embellished with two caricature prints in colour by Rowlandson.

Publisher: Thomas Tegg, 111, Cheapside, London.

Publication Year: 1809, Napoleonic era Georgian before Battle of Waterloo.

Dimensions: Length: 17.4cm, Width 10.7cm, Depth: 1.8cm.

Condition: In good condition. Complete and intact with minor marks to boards and pages throughout. Please study the photographs which form part of the description.

Background: A World classic, '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 deals Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman', and also as an answer to Tobias Smollett's decidedly unsentimental 'Travels Through France and Italy'. Sterne had met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness. He modelled 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 favourite style among those expressing non-mainstream views, including political radicalism. 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.

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