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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 265-282 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Textual Practice |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 02 Nov 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
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Peripatetic Philosophy: Sterne and Cosmopolitanism. / Regan, Shaun.
In: Textual Practice, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2017, p. 265-282.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - Peripatetic Philosophy: Sterne and Cosmopolitanism
AU - Regan, Shaun
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey charts the whimsical tour through France of its narrator, Yorick. In doing so, it comprises an essay in cosmopolitanism that explores the tensions between patriotic feeling and divergent models of cosmopolitanism itself. Mediating universalizing and relativistic conceptions of inter-national engagement, Yorick’s cosmopolitan identity is periodically compromised by a faltering, insular, and self-interested social performance. Even as he immerses himself in French society and attempts to cultivate the polite manners associated with France, Sterne’s eccentric traveller exhibits unease about his (national) identity and about his security in a foreign land. Through this comic representation of anxious expatriation, A Sentimental Journey dramatises the contention between national affiliations and cross-cultural sympathies, along with the complex and often contradictory impulses of cosmopolitan travel.
AB - Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey charts the whimsical tour through France of its narrator, Yorick. In doing so, it comprises an essay in cosmopolitanism that explores the tensions between patriotic feeling and divergent models of cosmopolitanism itself. Mediating universalizing and relativistic conceptions of inter-national engagement, Yorick’s cosmopolitan identity is periodically compromised by a faltering, insular, and self-interested social performance. Even as he immerses himself in French society and attempts to cultivate the polite manners associated with France, Sterne’s eccentric traveller exhibits unease about his (national) identity and about his security in a foreign land. Through this comic representation of anxious expatriation, A Sentimental Journey dramatises the contention between national affiliations and cross-cultural sympathies, along with the complex and often contradictory impulses of cosmopolitan travel.
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DO - 10.1080/0950236X.2016.1228846
M3 - Article
VL - 31
SP - 265
EP - 282
JO - Textual Practice
T2 - Textual Practice
JF - Textual Practice
SN - 0950-236X
IS - 2
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