Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Laurence Sterne: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
Appendix A: Sensibility—Philosophical Sources
- From John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
- From George Cheyne, The English Malady: or, a Treatise of Nervous Diseases of all Kinds (1733)
- From David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–40)
- From David Hartley, Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations (1749)
- From Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Appendix B: Sensibility in Literature
- “On Sympathy. By a Young Lady” (October 1752)
- “Ode to Sensibility” (November 1763)
- From Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759)
- From Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1762)
- From the Monthly Review (1765)
- From Hannah More, “Sensibility: An Epistle to the Honourable Mrs Boscawen” (1782)
Appendix C: Sensibility and Social Reform
- From John Doughty, Christian Sympathy (1752)
- Correspondence between Sterne and Ignatius Sancho on Slavery (1766)
- From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1767)
- From Hannah More, Slavery, a Poem (1788)
Appendix D: Sterne’s Didacticism
- From Sterne’s Letters (1767)
- “To Sir W” (27 September 1767)
- From a Letter to Mrs William James (12 November 1767)
- From a Letter to “the Earl of ——” (28 November 1767)
- From Laurence Sterne, The Sermons of Mr. Yorick (1760)
Appendix E: Travel Writing
- From Thomas Nugent, The Grand Tour (1749)
- From Tobias Smollett, Travels through France and Italy (1766)
- From Letter V
- From Letter VII
- From Samuel Sharp, Letters from Italy (1766)
- From Letter XI
- From Letter XVII
- From Letter XXXVIII
- From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1765)
- From Chapter IV
- From Chapter XLIV
- From Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1767)
Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews and Evaluations (1767)
- From the Critical Review (1768)
- From the Monthly Review (1768)
- “On the Death of Yorick,” London Magazine (June 1768)
- From Sentiments on the Death of the Sentimental Yorick (1768)
Appendix G: Imitations of A Sentimental Journey
- From [Samuel Paterson], Another Traveller! (1768)
- From the Review of Another Traveller!, Critical Review (1768)
- From the Review (by Ralph Griffiths) of Another Traveller!, Monthly Review (1768)
- From Yorick’s Sentimental Journey Continued (1768 or 1769)
- From Cornelius Cayley, A Tour through Holland, Flanders, and Part of France (1773)
- From Continuation of Yorick’s Sentimental Journey (1788)
Appendix H: A Sentimental Journey Anthologized and Illustrated
- From The Beauties of Sterne (1782)
- Illustrations from Early Editions of A Sentimental Journey
- “The Snuff Box” (1794)
- “Maria” (1794)
- “Yorick and the Monk Exchanging Snuff Boxes” (1792)
- “Yorick and the Starling” (1792)
- “The Grace” (1795)
- “I Could Not Sustain the Picture of Confinement which my Fancy Had Drawn” (1802)
- “The Temptation” (1803)
- “Maria” (1803)
- “Poor Maria”—Wedgwood Medallion (c. 1785)
Appendix I: Some Later Critiques
- From John Wesley, The Journal of John Wesley (1772)
- From Vicesimus Knox, Essays Moral and Literary (1782)
- From William Wilberforce, A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Higher and Middle Classes, Contrasted with Real Christianity (1797)
- From Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808)
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