... in these pathetic creatures. Hardy’s sheep are not fluffy baa-lambs but start out as membranous, slightly disgusting beings who must be coaxed to recognize and take hold of their own lives and bodily forms. As in the rabbinic commentary Foucault cites, this caretaking process sees to the supervision...

... a lamb to kill and eat, "but on the condition that they sacrifice it to God before barbequeing it" (68). They prepare an altar on a rock in the woods, which they adorn with flowers; they elect Miss Lonelyhearts "priest"; and they chant "Christ, Christ, Jesus Christ" until Lonelyhearts brings...

.... Finally, at the pointy end of the pyramid, four individual works by these writers— The Plumed Serpent , The Childermass , Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , and Murphy —are examined in some detail. At each level, Automatic makes an interesting and useful contribution to our understanding of the twentieth...

... as a Development/Postcolonial Problematic.” Geographical Journal 172 ( 2006 ): 66 -77. Vera , Yvonne . The Stone Virgins . New York: Farrar, 2002 . West , Rebecca . Black Lamb and Grey Falcon . New York: Viking, 1941 . Fiction and State Crisis John Marx...

... to incarnate “promise” ( xx ), and his actions, rather than being self-evident, elicit interpretation. Perhaps the most famous example of figural interpretation reads Isaac, who stands in for a sacrificial lamb in Genesis 22, as the figure of Christ, the lamb of God. In “giving up” the dog, David appears...

... as the transparent medium into which all other genres could eventually be translated" (83). An example of this is the Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare, a novelization of Shakespeare meant to appeal to particular types of readers, such as families or women, with the aim of providing a version cleansed of its im...

... of California P, 1960 . Kierkegaard , Soren . Fear and Trembling; Repetition . Ed. Howard Vincent Hong and Edna Hatlestad Hong. and trans. Howard Vincent Hong and Edna Hatlestad Hong. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1983 . Lamb , Jonathan . The Rhetoric of Suffering: Reading the Book of Job...

... for students, teeming with many interests and insights and generous in acknowledging the work of others. Follow Plotz where he wants to go, and you will be caught up in fascinating highways and byways. In the second chapter, Charles Lamb leads Plotz into a nuanced account of John Stuart Mill's aesthetics...

... the first articulation of Edgeworth’s ‘‘vision of illegitimate ownership which ‘‘keeps lost things lost, even after they are regained’’ (23). ‘‘Simple Susan’’ tells the story of a girl who wishes to sacrifice her pet lamb so that her father’s leave for militia duty can be stayed a week. His conscription...

... , Thomas . “Sentimental Fiction: Ethics, Social Critique, and Philanthropy.” The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780 . Ed. John Richetti. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2005 . 572 –601. Lamb , Jonathan . “Political Theories of the Self.” Preserving the Self in the South Seas, 1680...

... Jacques . The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis . Trans. Sheridan Alan . New York : Norton , 1998 . Lamb Jonathan . “ Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales .” Things . Ed. Brown Bill . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2004 . 193 – 226 . Linebaugh Peter...

... an arrant traitor to his defenceless sheep. His first feeling now was one of pity for the untimely fate of these gentle ewes and their unborn lambs. (33) The pity Oak feels for his sheep, however, does not spare his dog, which must pay with his life for the damage done to his flock and his prospects...

...,” like Charles Lamb, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas De Quincey, and Henry David Thoreau (37). Here as elsewhere, Lee interrupts his discussion with a list, like an interpellated anthology in the discourse of close reading (compare the numbered vignettes of Poe, Benjamin Disraeli, Herman Melville, Wilkie Collins...

...: Nature and the Built Environment in Nineteenth-Century Britain . Burlington : Ashgate , 2004 . Thomson J. C. Bibliography of the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb: A Literary History . London : Tutin , 1908 . Thornes John E. “Cultural Climatology and the Representation of Sky...

... . “ A Sentimental Journey and the Failure of Feeling .” The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne . Ed. Keymer Thomas . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 2009 . 79 – 94 . Lamb Jonathan . “ Imagination, Conjecture, and Disorder .” Eighteenth-Century Studies 45 . 1 ( 2011 ): 53 – 69 . Locke...

... of the five essays in "Austen at home," Elaine Jordan, in "Jane Austen goes to the sea- side," focuses on the West-Indian schoolgirl Miss Lambe in Sanditon and on a cluster of other fictional creole schoolgirls. Such figures "testify to the presence of 'the West Indian' in the heartland of English...

... –205. Keymer , Thomas . Sterne, the Moderns and the Novel . Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002 . Küchler , Susanne . “Materiality and Cognition: The Changing Face of Things.” Miller 206 –30. Lamb , Jonathan . “Modern Metamorphoses and Disgraceful Tales.” Things . Ed. Brown, Bill...

... baseball coach whose overenthusiastic shouts confuse the opposing teams. Finally, there is Kate Swift, the schoolteacher who uses her class- room as the site to invent fictive anecdotes, creating such “strangely intimate little stories concerning the life of” Charles Lamb that her students think he...

... : Indiana UP , 2004 . Lamb Jonathan . “ ‘The True Words at Last from the Mind in Ruins’: J. M. Coetzee and Realism .” J. M. Coetzee’s Austerities . Ed. Bradshaw Graham and Neill Michael . Burlington : Ashgate , 2010 . 177 – 90 . Macaskill Brian . “ I Am Not Me, the Horse...

... Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time . Trans. Tribe Keith . New York : Columbia UP , 2004 . Lamb Jonathan . The Things Things Say . Princeton, NJ : Princeton UP , 2011 . Lipski Jakub . Painting the Novel: Pictorial Discourse in Eighteenth-Century English Fiction...