..., as treasure maps for the whole phenomenon, two acutely comic parables of modern reading proffered, exactly half a century apart, in the pages of the Tatler and Tristram Shandy . “My Contemporaries the Novelists”: Isaac Bickerstaff, Uncle Toby, and the Play of Pulse...

... of production Deleuze and Guattari associate with desire in its purest or least “oedipalized” form. First I discuss the deliberate but apparently pointless and wasteful expenditure of labor, time, and resources associated with “curiosities.” Turning to Uncle Toby's battlefield in Tristram Shandy and Mr. Dick's...

... plots: from his own frustrations with Jenny to Trim’s adventures with the fair Beguin, from Julia’s death “un—” by Diego at the end of Slawkenbergius’s Tale to Uncle Toby’s amours, which prove as chimerical as the King of Bohemia’s seven castles. And the whole book ends on an anticlimactic note...

...-Reading Novels," for ' Laville, Sandra. Review of "Introduction," New Writing 13. Eds. Toby Litt and Ali Smith. The Guardian 23 March 2005, http:/ /books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1443910,00.html. KARIN WESTMAN I WOOLF IN THE WORLD instance-become...

...: New York UP, 1964. Lynch, Deidre. ”See Jane Elope: Why Are We So Obsessed with Jane Austen’s Love Life?” Slate (3 Aug. 2007): 1–3. <httpwww.slate.com/id/2171615>. (Accessed 24 Mar. 2009.) Miller, Toby, Nitlin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. Global Hollywood. London: BFI...

... and the physical signs of his barely concealed love of drink. Toby Weller has married a widow who owns a public house, and he is dismayed to find her succumbing to the influence of temperance reform. In a neat inversion of the sto- ries that temperance reform tells about rescue from drink, Toby tries...

... each mode of life he sees can give him the same thing with which the Happy Valley has tantalized him, a static "choice of life" in which he can confidently repose. Toby Shandy, aching fvom and for war, interprets life as should an ideal soldier, and soldier in idea. The invalid Matthew...

... for a novelist’s satire. Uncle Toby from Tristram Shandy belongs to this category, as do Thwackum and Square from Tom Jones and Squire Thornhill from The Vicar of Wakefield. Satire of this nature takes on a conservative quality, since by ridiculing discourses that in another context might prove alien- ating...

..., see his correspondence with James Matthews (February 7, 1893) (rpt. in Martin and Hudson 417) and with Dr. Toby (rpt. in ibid. 430-31). GENE JARREm 1 RACIAL REALISMS American readers. The third kind of realism I have in mind avoided conventional racial...

..., Maisie, Humbert Humbert, Uncle Toby, Lovelace, Lily Bart, Isabel Archer, Emma, The Fat Foolish Scullion, Amasa Delano, Kate Clephane, Peter Walsh, Pribislav Hippe, Undine Spragg, Raffle” (51). 22 We see Josey Wales watching Eastwood in The Enforcer in a movie theater ( James 75 ). 23...