Laurence sterne - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

The rise of the novelist in the 18th century began with the end of the English Civil War and Charles II returned as King of England. The building of two new theaters in London under royal patronage, but the plays were too luxurious and not completely aimed at the ordinary people. People began to learn how to read and write, and the novel was developed as a form of entertainment without the moral influence of the London theater. The great novelists of the period were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richard...

case studies putting the writers in dialogue exploring their relationhip with literature and philosophy. Sterne as a philisophical writer and Marx as a social critic and a literary one.

Lecture notes and seminar notes exploring Marx and Sterne as creative writers. Exploring philosophical and sociological veiw points within their respective creative writing texts.

Notes and explorations of case studies putting the writers in dialogue eploring their relationship with literature and philosophie. Strene as a philosophical writer and Marx as a literary one. Lecture notes and extra notes.

It is obvious that the concept of sentimentalism is present in Laurence Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey, with regard to the title of his work. About three decades after the publication of Sterne’s novel, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark was published. It is not surprising that her work also contained sentimentalism, as this was the major literary genre in eighteenth-century England. According to William Reddy, the concept of senti...