CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Methodology 4
The Focus of the Dissertation 6
Chapter 1 1.1 Construction of the Narrator: Johnson, Smollett, and Yorick 7
1.2 A Factual Narrator Perspective is a Construction 7
1.3 Tobias Smollett's Narrator is Compared to Fictional and Factual Narrators 11
1.4 Lawrence Sterne's Fictional Narrators are Constructions of Fact and Fiction 13
1.5.1 Just as fictional characters in a work can have differing perspectives, so do factual characters 16
1.5.2 A Narratological Analysis of Melford and Bramble 17
1.5.3 A Narratological Analysis of Johnson and Boswell in comparison to Melford and Bramble 18
1.6 Different Perspectives 19
1.7 Conclusion 21
Chapter 2 2.1 Johnson, Smollett, and Sterne and the Narrative construction of their Works 22
2.2 The Level of Factuality in the Travelogues of Johnson, Smollett, and Sterne 2.2.1 Johnson 24
2.2.2 Smollett 30
2.2.3 Sterne 32
2.3 Elements of Form in the Travelogues of Johnson, Smollett, and Sterne 2.3.1 Johnson 36
2.3.2 Smollett 40
2.4 An Analysis of Discourse in the Travelogues of Johnson, Smollett, and Sterne 42
2.4.1 Order, Duration, Voice and Mood 47
2.4.2 Factual and Fictional Construction in the Narrative 48
Conclusion 51
