Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) [ Art and Literature ]
… France and Italy (1768), may be read against the background of the form of sociability he favoured, which rested on conversation, on shared feelings, on sentimental commerce. In many ways, Sterne was the embodiment of a form of … circle of the Shandys, and finds Walter, his brother Toby, his faithful Corporal Trim, Parson Yorick all engaged in conversation. The village where they dwell becomes ‘the world’, ironically developed by the narrator: ‘by which word … or thereabouts, of which the cottage where the good old woman lived, is supposed to be the centre’. 9 While the conversation between the characters presupposes a form of sociability, and of cooperative engagement, most characters …
Salons | Enlightenment | Sentiment | Novel | Celebrity | Satire | Slavery
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