John Richetti - The Columbia History of the British Novel

Moers, Ellen, 244

Monastic life, 238 — 39

Money, 45 — 46

Montagu, Mary Wortley, 73, 94

Moore, George Edward (G. E.), 820, 822

Moore, George Augustus, 677; The Brook Kerith, 1006; Confessions of a Young Man, 616; Esther Waters, 616- 18; Evelyn Innes, 616, 1006; Heloise and Abelard, 1006; A Modern Lover, 613, 1006; A Mummer's Wife, 613, 1006; Sister Teresa, 616, 1006

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Moors Murders, 910

Moral character, morality, xx — xxi, 13, 188, 257, 356, 383, 534, 685, 716, 901; children's books and, 589 — 90; culture and, 762 — 63; in Defoe's works, 29, 35–36; in Dickens's works, 390 — 91, 398, 401; and natural order, 541 — 42; in Richardson's writing, 73, 79, 81, 87, 97–98, 247 — 48; in Tristram Shandy, 175 — 76; women and, 330, 371 — 72; in Wuthering Heights, 373 — 74

Moral devices: narrators as, 41–42

Moralism, 618 — 19, 625 — 26, 730, 820

More, Hannah, 251, 336, 342; Coelebs in Search of a Wife, 332; The Fairchild Family, 589

Morgan, Lady. See Owenson, Sydney

Morgan, William de, 623

Morier, James: The Adventures of Hajii Baba, of Ispahan, 567 — 68, 571

Morrell, Lady Ottoline, 734

Morris, William, 590

Morrison, Arthur: Child of the Jago, 614; "Lizerunt," 614

Morrison, Toni, 588

Mother Goose tales, 589

Mother Nature, 348

Mothers and motherhood, 347, 497, 588; in Gothic novels, 225 — 28, 235; in Isherwood's works, 747, 755 — 56; role of, 348- 49. See also Maternity

Motion picture(s), 746, 748, 878

Mullen, Richard, 475

Muller, Max: Lectures on the Science of Language, 442

Murder, 910, 968 — 70; in Dickens's works, 393, 401; in Gothic novels, 235 -36, 239 — 40; as vehicle, 744 — 46

Murdoch, Iris, 895, 943, 967

Murray, Hugh: The Morality of Fiction, 188, 192 — 93

Murray, Middleton, 733

Mussolini, Benito, 741

Mystery, mysteries, 489 -90, 503, 903, 967, 995 — 96

Mythology, 725, 728

Nabokov, Vladimir, 582, 587, 903; Lolita, 899; Pnin, 899

Nagasaki, Japan, 972 -73

Naipaul, V. S., 636, 650; Among the Believers, 1007; A Bend in the River, 648, 651 — 54, 1007; A Congo Diary, 1007; The Enigma of Arrival, 654, 656; In a Free State, 652, 1006; Guerrillas, 653, 1007; A House for Mr. Biswas, 653, 1006; India, 1007; The Mimic Men, 652, 654; The Mystic Masseur, 653, 1006; The Return of Eva Peron, 1007

Napier, Elizabeth, 244 — 45

Napoleonic Wars, 294, 357, 565

Narayan, R. K., 653

Narrators: as moral devices, 41–42

Nationalism: Eliot on, 447 -48; English, 388 — 89; Indian, 642 — 43, 831; of novel, 19–21

National Review, 460

Naturalism, 503, 623, 629, 730; decline in, 610 — 11; French, 608 — 10, 616 — 17, 625 -26; modification of, 617 — 18

Naturalist fiction, 609 -10

Nature, 130, 151, 348, 616; and moral order, 541 -42; sublime in, 343 — 44

Nazism, 726, 729, 794, 906; cultural morality and, 762 -63

Neilson, Donald, 969 -70

Newcastle, Thomas Pelham-Holles, duke of, 146

New Critics, 631

New Freewoman (journal), 1014

New Hedonism, 620 -21

New Imperialism, 562

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Newman, John Henry (Cardinal Newman), 428

New Poor Law, 384, 523

Newquist, Roy, 919

New Statesman (periodical), 896

New Towns, 914

New Woman fiction: themes in, 614 — 16, 620 — 23

New World, 150

New Yorker, 951

New York Review of Books, 941

New York Times Book Review, 904 — 5

New Zealand, 563, 576, 944

Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 302, 725, 730

Nigeria, 636, 650

Nihilism, 831

Nineteenth-Century Fiction (periodical), 474

Nobel Prizes, 652, 991, 1000, 1003

Nordau, Max, 611, 619; Degeneration, 610

Normans, 315

Norris, Frank, 609

North America, 563, 727

Novak, Maximillian, 34

Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg), 686

Novellas, 1, 6, 51

Novel reading, 2–3, 5, 62–63, 327

Novels, 20; apologies for, xix — xx; cultural force of, 3–4; as dialogical, xii — xiii; rampant production of, 4–5; serious novels, 12; typology of, 12–13. See also by individual type

Nuns, 60, 65

Nursery rhymes, 589

Nuttall, Zelia: Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations, 725

Oaths, 63–64

Observer (periodical), 896

Oedipus complex, 222, 237

O'Faolain, Sean, 878

"Office of Intelligence: Or, Universal Register of Persons and Things, The," 109

Okri, Ben, 942

Oliphant, Margaret, 352, 470, 501; "Sensation Novels," 483 — 84

Opie, Amelia, 328, 350; Adeline Mowbray, 331; "The Father and the Daughter," 339

Orientalism, 146 — 47, 644; in Eliot's novels, 449 — 50; in Scott's novels, 303, 314 — 19

Orientals: stereotyping of, 567 — 68, 572 — 73

Original Sin, 591

Orwell, George (Eric Arthur Blair), 867, 876; Animal Farm, 745, 1007; on bogusness, 872 — 74; Burmese Days, 643, 745, 1007; Coming Up for Air, 872 -73; Homage to Catalonia, 1007; on imperialism, 643, 744 — 45; 1984, 745, 873 -74, 888 — 90, 1007; The Road to Wigan Pier, 1007

Ouida, 496

Owenson, Sydney (Lady Morgan), 328; on sublime love, 344 — 46; The Wild Irish Girl, 344 -46, 565

Oxford University Press World's Classics, 456, 475

Pacifism, 727, 753

Paganism, 320 — 21, 730

Paine, Thomas, 248

Pamela Censured (Anonymous), 85, 93 — 94

Pankhurst, Christabel, 722

Paranoia, 241, 243 — 44

Parliament, 247 — 48

Parnell, Charles Stuart, 794

Parodies, 174, 385, 1013; of Richardson's work, 84–86, 110 — 11, 118 -19, 998

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Parry, James: True Anti-Pamela, 85

Party writers, 20

Passion, 339, 394, 751, 791; consequences of, 552 — 54; excess, 337 — 38; and reason, 252 -54, 259

Paston, George. See Symonds, Emily Morse

Patriarchy, 328, 333, 340, 350, 378, 380; domestic, 346 — 49; and identity, 311 — 12, 362; opposition to, 331 — 32; as theme, 46–47, 94, 97; violence of, 232, 342

Patronage, 34, 108, 128, 158, 386, 390

Pattison, Robert, 590 — 91

Paul, Herbert, 474

Paulin, Tom: "In an Eweleaze Near Weatherbury," 543

Peacock, Thomas Love: Crotchet Castle, 749; Headlong Hall, 749; Nightmare Abbey, 749

Pelham, Henry, 121

Penguin Books, 475

Penny Magazine, 387

People's Charter to Parliament, 523

Perera, Suvendrini, Reaches of Empire, 563

Pérez Galdós, Benito, 906

Peri Bathous, 169

Perkins, David, 17

Persecution, 269 — 70

Perversity: in Gothic novel, 232- 40

Phallocentrism, 177, 229

Phelps, William Lyon: Advance of the English Novel, 20

Philips, Katherine: "Orinda," 204

Phillips, Caryl, 656

Philosophy, 716, 847

Picaresque fiction, 132 -34, 137 — 39

Plantagenets, 313

"Playgiarism": and postmodernism, 947 -49

Plays, 132, 398, 763, 993, 1000, 1002, 1007; by Beckett, 847, 850, 854, 991; by Henry Fielding, 103 — 4, 124, 997; by Joyce, 765, 769

Plomer, William, 746

Poe, Edgar Alan, 947

Poetry, 307, 632, 661 — 62, 742, 989, 1001; satirical, 128, 132; sublime in, 342- 43

Police: establishment of, 109 — 10

Political novels, 508 -10

Politics, xviii, 15, 27, 121, 145, 247 — 48, 302, 353, 520, 909, 996, 1003, 1007, 1009; of AIDS, 985 — 86; in Bage's work, 267 — 68, 990; British, xix, 149 — 50, 1012; in Brontë's work, 359 — 60; of class, 321 — 24, 367 — 69, 383 — 84; in Conrad's work, 702 — 9, 713; in Dickens's work, 391 — 92; feminist, 217 — 18; gender and, 509 -10; in Godwin's work, 268 — 71, 999; government role and, 511 -12; in historical novels, 319, 322; Indian, 642 -43; liberal, 511 -12; and lower class, 383 -85, 388; of modernists, 905 — 6; in narratives, 46–47; 1930s, 741 — 42; patriarchal, 331 -32, 349; and poverty, 510 — 11; in Roberts's work, 742 -43; Romantic writers and, 330 -32, 350; satire and, 115, 146; in sensation novels, 499–500; sexuality of, 495 — 96; in Charlotte Smith's work, 265 — 67, 330- 31; in Smollett's work, 264 — 65; and social issues, 512 — 13; and social reform, 508 -9