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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Elizabeth, hi! Another possible search avenue on the garden issue is to look at the National Agriculture Library's collection. They have a bibliographic database called Agricola (AGRICulture OnLine Access; Latin for "farmer") that indexes articles from all the gardening/agriculture/veterinary journals since 1982. It's not full text but it is international in scope. The catalog of their collection is also searchable. And if you find what you need you can get document delivery. Go to www.nal.usda.gov/. Good luck! Regina Regina S. Moore ([log in to unmask]) Assistant Director, Kent County Public Library 408 High Street, Chestertown, MD 21620 (410) 778-3636 On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Elizabeth A. Ginno wrote: > ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- > > Dear ARLIS'ers, > > A faculty member of mine has a couple of interesting questions-- if > anyone can give me some tips, thanks!! > > 1. I'm trying to find things that might've been written on the > garden that Uncle Toby builds in Laurence Sterne's_Tristram Shandy_. > Toby and his assistant translate the landscape of Namur (Belgium) > into a garden in England (wherein Toby can relive the Battle of > Namur). > > Some time ago I looked into a few sources (MLA) and could not readily > find anything that had been written on Toby's garden (or his obsession > with it). I'm examining it in the context of landscape aesthetics and > later (19th-20th c) ideas about gardens as sites and landscapes > recreated by artists. > > And... > > 2. I read a novel in which the author quoted someone (Sterne, > Austen?) to the effect that a book as an object always gives you an > indication of how much more there is to read, and you know as you > read that everything that is to be resolved will be resolved by the > time you get to the last page of the tome you hold in your hand. Then > the story concluded forty or fifty pages before the end of the book > -- all the remaining pages were blank. Having told us how books work, > the author, with the help of a publisher who was willing to pay for > blank pages, neatly tricked the reader. > > The problem is that now I can not remember either the title or the > author. Can anyone help me? > > Thanks for any help!!! > Liz > ********************************************************** > Elizabeth A. Ginno Phone: 510-885-2969 > University Library FAX: 510-885-2049 > CSU Hayward Email: [log in to unmask] > Hayward, CA 94521 > ********************************************************** >