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6 unusual facts about A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy


Adam Buck

A major influence on Regency culture (producing plates of contemporary costume as well as genre pictures of family and classical scenes and illustrations for Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey), he was himself much influenced by the Greek Revival (the furniture, vases - which he collected -, sculptures, costumes and even hairstyles in his works are all ancient Greek).

Angelica Schuyler Church

This is an allusion to a sexually charged scene in Laurence Sterne's popular novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy in which "Parson Yorick" has to negotiate sleeping arrangements when obliged to share a room with an attractive Italian woman and her maid.

Antun Nemčić

It is a travelogue modeled on Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey.

Coxwold

It is situated 18 miles north of York and is where the Rev. Laurence Sterne wrote A Sentimental Journey.

Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais

He recounted his visit through the eyes of the narrator of his novel A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768).

Viktor Shklovsky

In Berlin, in 1923, he published his memoirs about the period 1917–22 under the title Сентиментальное путешествие, воспоминания (Sentimental'noe puteshestvie, vospominaniia, A Sentimental Journey), alluding to A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne, an author he much admired and whose digressive style had a powerful influence on Shklovsky's writing.



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