<Tab/><Tab/>-In what ways can "A Sentimental Journey" be seen as a sentimental novel or a dramatization of the importance of sensibility? Laurence Sterne's travel-book, which is called "A Sentimental Journey", was written in 1765 and in this book the author describes his travels through France and Italy from a different point of view. His style is different from the other travel-books of that time. He mostly …showed first 75 words of 1465 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1465 total…that "I fear the weight of myself and my afflictions together have been too much for him-they have shortened the poor creatures days and I fear I have them to answer for." (Sterne, 41) Thus, sensibility in "A Sentimental Journey" is a parody, which combines the idealized, the carnal, the intellectual and the physical. Lauren Stern gives us a moral lesson through the presentation of "the parodic nature of sensibility". (Todd, 8) <Tab/>