The novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century. He modelled the character of Smelfungus on him.
Sterne had met Smollett during his travels in Europe, and strongly objected to his spleen, acerbity and quarrelsomeness.
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. 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. Mr Yorick exchanging snuffboxes with Father Lorenzo: "having a horn snuff box in his hand, he presented it open to me.-You shall taste mine-said I, pulling out my box and putting it into his hand."Ī Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. Abroad Sterne became the "high priest of sentimentalism," and as such had a profound impact upon continental letters in the second half of the 18th century.The Monk of Calais (1780) by Angelica Kauffman, depicting The Revd. Yorick succeeds, but in every adventure, his ego or inappropriate desires and impulses get in the way of "sentimental commerce." The result is a light-hearted comedy of moral sentiments.
He called it a "sentimental" journey because the point of travel was not to see sights or visit art collections, but to make meaningful contact with people. Sterne did not live to complete the part on Italy. Mr Yorick follows his Sensibility and finds pleasure in everything he does, in contrast to contemporary travel writers, Tobias Smollett in particular, whom Sterne satirizes in the figure of 'Smelfungus'. Sterne travelled in France during the 1760s and drew on his experiences to write the narrative of Mr. Sterne is one of the most original and unexpected of writers, and A Sentimental Journey differs from other travel books as greatly as Tristram Shandy differs from other novels.
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