![]() ![]() Sentiment also became a favorite style among those expressing non-mainstream views including political radicalism. ![]() Throughout the 1770s women travel writers began publishing significant numbers of sentimental travel accounts. ![]() ![]() 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 novel was extremely popular and influential and helped establish travel writing as the dominant genre of the second half of the 18th century. He modeled the character of Smelfungus on him.) (Sterne 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 Laurence 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. A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy is a novel by the Irish-born English author Laurence Sterne, written and first published in 1768, as Sterne was facing death. ![]()
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