Book report on Laurence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey"

<Tab/><Tab/>-In what ways can "A Sentimental Journey" be seen as a sentimental novel or a dramatization of the importance of sensibility? Laurence Sterne's travel-book, which is called "A Sentimental Journey", was written in 1765 and in this book the author describes his travels through France and Italy from a different point of view. His style is different from the other travel-books of that time. He mostly …

…that "I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him-they have shortened the poor creatures days and I fear I have them to answer for." (Sterne, 41) Thus, sensibility in "A Sentimental Journey" is a parody, which combines the idealized, the carnal, the intellectual and the physical. Lauren Stern gives us a moral lesson through the presentation of "the parodic nature of sensibility". (Todd, 8) <Tab/>