I have now set to, and snail not take my pen from my paper till I have finished. It was not until a month later, however, that he could assure his friends the Jameses that he was "beginning to be truly busy at my Sentimental Journey — the pains and sorrows of this life having retarded its progress — but I shall make up my lee-way, and overtake every body in a very short time. By September, when Richard Griffith saw him at Scarborough, he had written "but about Half a Volume" of the novel he was then calling "his Work of Redemption.
The months in which Sterne labored to see Yorick through the first half of his sentimental journey brought to a final period the long, debilitating disease with which he had struggled since Cambridge. Like the condemned man in Dr.
Johnson's chilling metaphor, the knowledge that death was imminent no doubt concentrated Sterne's mind, but it never broke his spirit. Montagu, "or some unknown Spring only sufferd to act within us, when, we are thus in the house of Bondage.
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In mid-November, Sterne could assure Mrs. James that A Sentimental Journey would please both her and his daughter Lydia:. It is a subject which works well, and suits the frame of mind I have been in for some time past — I told you my design in it was to teach us to love the world and our fellow creatures better than we do — so it runs most upon those gentler passions and affections, which aid so much to it. This, he added, is "the doctrine I teach," and which his friends the Jameses exemplified in their lives. But it was not the only doctrine Sterne taught.
He never allows us to forget that men and women are less often moved by selfless, social passions than by selfish interests and desires — and that, in our vanity preferring to suppose otherwise, we are laughable. Three days after writing to Mrs. In A Sentimental Journey, Sterne meant to find a place for the soul in the body; he meant to reconcile the powerful and alluring arguments of the materialists with the doctrines of his religion.
To achieve this purpose he had to solve two problems posed by the new philosophy. On the one hand, Locke's account of the mental mechanisms by which a multiplicity of random sensations are combined to form the consciousness of individual men and women seemed to imply the extreme subjectivist condition of solipsism.
On the other hand, experiments of physiologists such as La Mettrie seemed to substantiate the claims of atheists — among them Sterne's friends d'Holbach, Diderot, and Hume — that human beings were nothing more than soulless automata who bear a striking resemblance to M. To solve these problems in his "Work of Redemption" Sterne begins by acknowledging the cogency of these twin tenets of the new.
If Locke had freed the world of "a thousand vulgar errors," he was nonetheless "bubbled" in preferring judgment to wit;56 for, as Sterne's narrative will show in theme and in form, sentiment and eroticism — the sympathetic and the sexual imagination — can at least mitigate the condition of solipsistic self-enclosure, and by enabling us to "feel some generous joys and generous cares beyond [ourselves]" , argue for the existence of a soul.
The symbols of solipsism in the novel are two: In the scenes that famously open the novel — and that provoked the prevailing sardonic reading of Yorick's character — Sterne's narrator behaves as if he were a case-study drawn from La Mettrie's L'Homme machine.
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After a good dinner and a bottle of burgundy, he is so flushed with altruistic impulses he concludes,. Rather than oversetting La Mettrie's doctrine, however, Yorick at once seems to demonstrate its validity as he spurns the monk's appeal for alms and, to excuse his selfishness, invokes the exculpatory doctrine of moral determinism — "the ebbs and flows of our humours.
But Yorick, it will soon appear, is not a mere machine, but a man of conscience; he knows he has behaved badly, and he resolves to make amends: And so he does. As his journey through France nears an end, Parson Yorick — ashamed of having prostituted himself intellectually in order to win the approval of the free-thinking beaux esprits of Paris — leaves the capital to journey south. Near Moulines, he seeks out Maria, whose pathetic story Sterne had related in the last volume of Tristram Shandy — where, however, Maria had found it difficult to distinguish Tristram from her goat, symbol of lechery.
Now, in contrast, there will be no sniggering. Maria's goat, Sterne pointedly observes, has been replaced by a little dog, symbol of fidelity; and the tears she sheds are not for a faithless lover, but for her father, who died of grief a month earlier:.
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I sat down close by her; and Maria let me wipe [her tears] away as they fell with my handkerchief. I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pester'd the world ever convince me of the contrary. Yorick's conviction that he has a soul is reinforced in the chapters that follow his encounter with Maria. But though Sterne clearly intends to affirm the fundamental doctrines of his religion, he does so, remarkably, by adapting to his own purpose the shocking theories of the materialists. In "The Bourbonnois," the famous apostrophe to "Dear sensibility! In the two following chapters, entitled "The Supper" and "The Grace," Sterne proceeds radically to humanize one of the most sacred mysteries of his Anglican faith, the eucharist — by parliamentary statute the Test by which one's orthodoxy had been officially determined for a century.
In "The Supper," a simple meal of bread and wine becomes for Yorick "a feast of love" , uniting him in communion with the peasant and his family. In "The Grace," which follows, Yorick believes he has seen "Religion" mixing in the family's dance of Thanksgiving; and the cheerful gratitude this simple act expresses seems to him more acceptable to Heaven than the pompous pieties of a bishop That Yorick, as he promised, has indeed learned better manners in his sentimental journey from Calais to Lyons should by now be obvious; yet the final chapter of Sterne's we must remember unfinished novel abruptly returns us to a mood of irreverent bawdry that seems to mock Yorick's pious meditations on his soul and his religion.
As I have suggested elsewhere,58 however, even "The Case of Delicacy," for all its hilarious pruriency, has a place in Sterne's "Work of Redemption," which has been all along an attempt to sanctify, as it were, the matter of which we human beings are made, by finding in the physiology of feeling and imagination the means of transcending the self. What Yorick has sought all along is relationship — the means by which the self might escape the confinement of the symbolic Desobligeant. What is new in Sterne's system if one can call it that is its emphasis on the ameliorative, liberating function of human sexuality.
Yorick is forever touching the attractive young women he encounters — holding their hands, feeling their pulse, exciting in himself and in his readers ill-defined fantasies of sexual congress. The famous final chapter is a paradigm of the novel's controlling theme: But Eros and the irrepressible activity of their imaginations will not be controlled by such paltry defenses: But she disputes the point so warmly that "she weakened her barrier by it" , and the curtains part in a shower of corking pins.
Upon my word and honour, Madame, said I — stretching my arm out of bed, by way of asseveration —. So that when I stretch'd out my hand, I caught hold of the Fille de Chambre's. Yorick's prayerful ejaculation notwithstanding, it must be said that, as a "Work of Redemption," A Sentimental Journey is decidedly a curious thing.
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It bears no resemblance, certainly, to a discourse of Christian piety. Yet in it Sterne found a way to mitigate the disturbingly solipsistic implications of the new philosophy that had defined the narrow world of Shandy Hall in terms of hobby-horsical self-enclosure and impotence. In A Sentimental Journey he proposed to find in human physiology — in our senses and our imaginative faculties — the means of transcending materialist doctrines and of affirming the possibility of relationship. Prolegomena to an Interpretation of the Word "Stimmung," ed.
Anna Granville Hatcher Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, Laurence Sterne, Letters, ed. The Early and Middle Years London: Waterland particularly emphasized the importance of Locke's Essay, which "must be read, being a Book so much and I add so justly valued, however faulty the Author may have been in other Writings" Waterland, Advice [Cambridge, ] Early romanticism in Mexico highlighted the aesthetics of nature, the exaltation of the imagina- 37!
Such was the story of the boy Ernesto who kept the streets clean and obeyed his elders. In another example, La Escuela Primaria presented the example of the boy Eduardo who was always annoyed. Both educators discussed above manifested the important role of emo- tions in the moral composition of boyhood. The emotional education of boys included the inculcation of honor and the values of work and honesty while regulating the negative emotion of anger.
A whole generation of Mexican positivist educators emphasized the moral training of boys, and their focus became the center- piece of pedagogical theorists who viewed it as an innovative approach to teaching Surkis Pedagogic theories, popularized for Mexican readers, cited only boys. Male educators linked this restrictive work ethic outside the home to the virtue of honor. Educators in Mexico interpreted honor as virtue and incorporated it into their projects of child socialization.
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In particular, Mexico City by the s saw a number of attempts by pub- lishers and editors to target that readership. The newspaper El Monitor Republicano advertised classes in ped- 39! By the end of the nineteenth century, the works of pedagogues Friedrich Froebel and Pestalozzi were translated and published in newspapers El Diario del Hogar, 19 September For instance, El Obrero del Porvenir, published in Mexico City, had a circu- lation averaging 1, copies in Sosenski Newspaper circulations outside Mexico City were much more modest.
Sierra, based in Mexico City with Justo Sierra, was also the editor of La Libertad, a liberal newspaper in the years between and Hale In his newspaper for children, Sierra emphasized the Christian fear of divine judgment as a method to promote obedience. The reader then learns the moral of the story.
A poor worker had asked the dying landowner for a loan. In the middle of the night the poor man, terrified after the appearances of the devil and the sounds of the owl, decided to keep his promise to the dead landowner. By pointing to the imminent death of the landowner and the figure of the devil, boys were encouraged to obey. Sierra also used the imagery of intense pain to instill obedience in boys.
In the moral tale, Sierra points to the pain experienced by the horse in order to achieve obedience among boys. Although Sierra encouraged fear because it was assumed that frightened children would respond with obedience, emotional standards in child-rear- ing in the United States and England were relevant to the Mexican paradigm because they presented alternatives to the use of fear as a form of discipline.
By the s, American parents were advised to avoid frightening their chil- dren Stearns and Haggerty The emotional training of boys as a central component of positivism conceptualized anger as a negative emotion.
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Thus, anger man- agement in boyhood, according to advocates, could be learned in the home with the help of parents and teachers. These theories, heavily publicized and promoted by Mexican educators, resulted in a popularization at the time of the concept of sentimental boyhood. Evident differences in pedagogic approaches in the prescriptive literature for boys are indicative of rural and urban microsocial contexts in Mexico shaping the dissemination of European theories of boyhood in late nine- teenth-century Mexico. Rather than reconstructing the history of pedagogy through the lens of Mexico City, the Mexican case must be considered to complicate conventional narratives of boyhood.
Historians of Mexico have as yet barely acknowledged the role of edu- cators of moral education outside Mexico City. But educators in Cuba understood their position as agents of change. Educators in the greater Caribbean region played a crucial role for Mexican readers in the popularization of European notions of boyhood that pertained to the early life course before the shift in the press to the criminalization of children seen with the con- solidation and expansion of the commercial press in the second part of the Porfiriato — Seen and Heard in Mexico: Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism.
University of Nebraska Press. Family, Work, and Welfare in Mexico City, — Cartas, apuntes y otros escritos de Cuba. Piracy and the Play Ethic. Race, Nation, and Revolution, — University of North Carolina Press.
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