Laurence Sterne’s a sentimental journey : an introspection into the private, emotional self.

• Main Author: Lim, Daphne Pei Ying.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45910
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Literary critic, John Richetti, views the sentimental novel as a form of escapism, “The sentimental novel that flourishes from the 1740s onwards reveals a similar confusion in its approach to social problems. By cultivating private sympathy and self-indulgent emotional responses to misery and injust...