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SUMMARY:'Alas\, poor Yorick!': Laurence Sterne's &quot\;A Sentimental Jour
 ney&quot\; after 250 years' - Dr Mary Newbould (Fellow of Wolfson College\
 , Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:Eighteenth-century clergyman Laurence Sterne created an immens
 e sensation in London\, 1760 with the publication of what proved to be the
  first instalment of his comic novel 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Sh
 andy\, Gentleman'. Whilst readers continued to be intrigued\, shocked\, an
 d baffled by this idiosyncratic work throughout the 1760s\, Sterne's secon
 d novel\, 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' (1768)\, exerte
 d an even wider\, global impact. It capitalised on the trend for sentiment
 al fiction and for travel narratives\, but it is also rich with Sterne's c
 haracteristic\, subtly erotic humour. 2018 sees the 250-anniversary of 'A 
 Sentimental Journey's' publication\, and of its author's death just a mont
 h later. This talk will consider what made this novel so appealing\, and t
 he 'afterlife' it experienced in commentary\, imitation\, and image - an a
 fterlife closely entwined with the myth of its creator\, whom readers like
 ned to the 'Yorick' who narrates 'A Sentimental Journey'.\n
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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