...Joseph Drury The dynamic structural model for the erotics of narrative in the eighteenth century was not l'homme moteur of Freud but l'homme machine of French philosopher Julien de la Mettrie. Set in this context, the narrative digressions symbolized by Corporal Trim's arabesque in Tristram Shandy...

... 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...

..., 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 Tristram Shandy, Gentleman . Ed. New, Melvyn, and Joan New. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1978 –84. Stewart , Susan . On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection . Durham: Duke UP, 1993 . Stonehill , Brian . The Self-Conscious Novel: Artifice...

... titles he catalogs—tracts written by Anglicans, Catholics, deists, classicists, mystics, and men of the world. This overview of treatises on happiness sets up chapters 1 through 5, beginning with a reading of Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759–67). Tristram Shandy , the novel...

.... But, as Brewer reminds us here, the most popular literary characters of the eighteenth century had a life outside the books in which they first came into existence. Lemuel Gulliver, Pamela Andrews, and Tristram Shandy-to take three instances with which he is especially concerned-circulated not only...

... to Satis House, in Great Expectations? And per- haps even to the “winding the clock” moment that begins Tristram Shandy—a moment in which (Tristram’s own) conception is understood as something that happens while time passes, and people think about time passing elsewhere? The key to the childhood...

...). Where the earlier chapters align the novel with inductive reasoning, chapter 5 reads Fielding’s Amelia and Sterne’s Tristram Shandy as indicative of an epistemological shift away from inductive reasoning toward a Humean critique of the same. In both works, Moles- worth argues, the instability...

...). The following chapters are slightly more predictable and vary in quality and insight- fulness. In a long second chapter, Banita discusses Patrick McGrath’s Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now alongside Claire Tristram’s After, understanding these novels’ “transference of the public...

...), Nick McDonell's The Third Brother (2005), Jay McInerney's The Good Life (2006), and Claire Tristram's After (2004). Some of these texts end up with only a few paragraphs of discussion or serve mainly to illustrate a point. Most of the time, however, the richness, intelligence, and scope of her...

... speech, or intricately crafted narration in Laurence Sterne's case, the pulses that animate various bodies can be brought into coordination or isochrony. Beats, then, are shown to be inherently social, though not conclusively so. Yahav notes that “[r]hythmic sympathetic moments in Tristram Shandy...

... Journey and Tristram Shandy depict worlds in which characters are at the mercy of circumstance, characters like Sir Walter are “less a character in the traditional sense and more an occasion or circumstance in Sterne's expanded sense,” and gestural communication leads often to guesswork and confusion...

...)' and Austen's Mansfield Park (1814), are supplemented by shorter, synthesized treatments of Sarah Fielding's David Simple (1744), Henry Fielding's Tom Jones (1749), Sterne's Tristram Shandy (1759), and Burney's Evelina (1778). Focusing on this corpus, Pollak offers a complex reading of the incest...

... reflection or theory or whatever you want to call it, and I don't think there ever has been. This is not a postmodern state of affairs. I mean, if you read Sterne, half of Tristram Shandy is critical reflection. But at the same time, I think maybe the psychoanalytic model is kind of interesting...

... novels do not appear to be about the ideals and norms that guide human beings or about the passions that drive them. A problem for Pavel's history is that a number of canonical novels, from Tristram Shandy to Ulysses , are only grudgingly admitted as examples of the genre, while others...

... of reading, which turns out to have broad implications: social relationships are determined by reading books and also by reading persons. In ac- counts of Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, Sarah Field- ing's David Simple, and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Spacks...

... . Sontag Susan . Against Interpretation . New York : Vintage , 1994 . Sterne Laurence . The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman . Oxford : Oxford UP , 2009 . Tajiri Yoshiki . “ Beyond the Literary Theme Park: J. M. Coetzee's Late Style in The Childhood of Jesus...

.... © 2011 by Novel, Inc. 2011 Duke University Press Works Cited Beer Gillian . The Romance . London : Methuen , 1970 . Booth Wayne C. “The Self-Conscious Narrator in Comic Fiction before Tristram Shandy.” PMLA 67 ( 1952 ): 163 – 85 . Boswell James . Life...

... to tell about their travels, travails, and buffetings within the material world, their assembling and disassembling. 5 Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy , for instance, investigates the very notion of something being inside a book when Sterne has Corporal Trim equivocate humorously between...

... Performativity, I: 297 The Tatler, III: 107 sensation novel, II: 451 Sterne, Laurence serial novel, II: 451 Tristram Shandy, I: 337; III: 18, 107 shame, I: 297 Stevenson, Robert Louis, II: 504 Shapiro...