The excerpt accounts the views on man based on his emotional/sentimental behavior. Those who are sympathetic and willing to listen amiable, while those who are only concerned with themselves are disagreeable. This statement exemplifies Smith's ideas…
This is a scene depicting Yorick and Maria near the end of A Sentimental Journey. This image shows all the emotions and feelings being expressed which was the epitome of the Age of Sentimentalism
A kind of collage portraying important scenes from the novel, as well as key words and phrases that appear within the novel. The words and images portrayed generally relate to ideas of sentimentalism and Yorick's expressions of his passions.
An excerpt from a journal article about the rise of foreign travel in eighteenth century Europe, and how it influenced travel writing such as Lawrence Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey".
His argument of the inquiry: (1) Our ideas have their origin in our perceptions and are received by senses. (2) For different perceptions, we have different senses. (3) Perceptions are founded in certain qualities of the objects perceived. (4) These…
Doctors in the late 18th century had little understanding of mental illness. Much of the contemporary understanding of the mind was grounded in Humorism, which classified people according to their dominant Humor, which would supposedly make itself…
An excerpt from Chapter 2 The Vicar of Wakefield which captures the sentimental experience of courtship through an account of the daily routine led by the involved families