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• W2604306710 abstract "230 warranted and lists of often perceptive observations lack contextual glue. Nevertheless , Mr. Bosch’s essentialist reading is based on solid textual revelations and not wishful cultural constructs, and he often grafts his opinion on Melvyn New’s grounded observations. Perhaps the most insightful moments provided here extend Tom Keymer’s notions about the serial nature of Tristram Shandy to consider how Sterne may have reacted to some of the spun off commentary in his next installment, suggesting a dialogic or even collaborative process. Also useful are historical parallels such as the relationship between Tristram and medieval Nobody-Somebody satires. The study is formed around thematic subtopics such as ‘‘Soldiers,’’ ‘‘Impulses ,’’ and ‘‘Sentiment, or Something Like it,’’ each chapter addressing both inspiration and imitation, sometimes too eagerly. ‘‘Physicians,’’ for instance, is primarily about general science, and Mr. Bosch disappointingly notes after a lengthy discussion, ‘‘For Sterne’s even potential knowledge of the latest medical discoveries, there is no indication whatever.’’ Mr. Bosch’s commentary occasionally goes astray, such as when observing that in Tristram’s ‘‘sentimental anecdotes ,’’ Sterne ‘‘found his very special satirical voice,’’ or when he assumes A Sentimental Journey ‘‘is about sex,’’ without discussion or evidence to that effect. Too often he sets out concepts and contentions as givens without definition or explanation; much could have been developed more completely and concretely. The sense of confusion here almost forms a subtext to the aptly titled study itself, a pity as Mr. Bosch is often illuminating ; however, Sterne’s wondrous indeterminacy yields better to a firmer expository hand. He elides Sterne’s fictions too easily with his sermons and letters, texts with vastly different intentions , as well as the real with the spurious . Small problems arise, not surprising given the quantity of surveyed texts; for instance, Mr. Bosch treats the broad cultural fascination with the character of Maria before 1800 with the same emphasis as transient Grub Street knockoffs . This book frustrates. Flashes of insight follow journeys into the irrelevant. The study, too, suffers from its production : written expression can be unnecessarily complex (possibly a byproduct of translation), verb tenses inconsistent, typos too frequent, and scholarship sometimes unconventional or long in the tooth. Burgeoning footnotes must be tamed; dissertations, de natura rerum, pursue tangential threads that must be pruned. Overall, however, this is an important addition to the Sternean shelf— an overdue consideration of derivations and imitations, complimented by many summaries, excerpts, and reproductions of material not easily found outside major archives. W. B. Gerard Auburn University Montgomery HENRY FIELDING. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, ed. Adam Potkay. New York: Pearson, 2008. Pp. xxv ⫹ 366. $11.80. In the late 1960s the Yippie leader Jerry Rubin published an autobiography /political manifesto. Constrained by his erratic Marxism to hold the profit motive in contempt, Rubin’s title was Steal This Book. Because it testifies to Fielding’s important place in British fiction (and to the enduring appeal of 231 his prose), any new edition of Joseph Andrews should be good news for Fielding studies. But ‘‘Do Not Steal This Book.’’ A Longman Cultural Edition, it claims to present the text ‘‘in contexts that illuminate the lively intersections of literature, tradition, and culture.’’ Mr. Potkay introduces three such contexts: the Romance tradition (literary), the debate over the relationship between benevolism and morality (theological), and the analysis of why we laugh (philosophical ). (The paragraph introducing these contexts gets them out of order.) Mr. Potkay’s understanding of ‘‘The Romance Tradition’’ apparently does not go beyond James Lynch’s short monograph on Henry Fielding and the Heliodoran Novel (1986). In this Heliodoran context, Mr. Potkay narrows Don Quixote to a Romance rather than an anti-Romance and reads Parson Adams as a redaction of the ‘‘poor Spanish gentleman .’’ In their discoveries of their ‘‘proper social place,’’ Joseph and Fanny are part of a plot ‘‘as old as Heliodorus’s Ethiopian Story.’’ Missing here is Henry Knight Miller’s far richer account of sources in his Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones and the Romance Tradition (1976) and, of course, Frye’s in his ‘‘Theory of Modes.’’ Actually, Fielding ’s birth-mystery plot goes back to Moses in the bulrushes, to Oedipus..." @default.
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