A Sentimental Journey to Mars: Laurence Sterne and his Twentieth-Century Successors This essay examines the idea of the journey in Laurence Sterne’s Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) and the manner in which it has been referred to and elaborated upon by three twentieth-century writers: Italo Svevo in Corto viaggio sentimentale (Short Sentimental Journey,…