Contents

Preface to the Reissued Edition by Marilyn Gaull viii

Note on the Text by John Wiltshire xxv

Acknowledgements xxix

1 Introduction 1Jane Austen and the Novel 1Jane Austen and Society 12Jane Austen and Education 24Jane Austen and Language 35

2 Anger in the Abbey: Northanger Abbey 43

3 Secrecy and Sickness: Sense and Sensibility 75

4 Knowledge and Opinion: Pride and Prejudice 103

5 The Quiet Thing: Mansfield Park 142

6 The Match-Maker: Emma 176

7 In Between: Persuasion 208

8 The Disease of Activity: Sanditon 250

Bibliography 286

Index 291

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acting 162–4, 167, 168–9Adorno, Theodor 50adventurers 52–3Adventures of Augie March, The

(Bellow) 142advertising 222, 253, 260–1,

267–8Aers, David 5Alice through the Looking Glass

(Carroll) 269‘Allen, Mrs’ 56, 60, 61–2alteration 51, 53Althusser, Louis 5Amelia (Fielding) 52–3Amis, Kingsley ix, 143anger 47, 74Anna Karenina 131–2Antigua 149antitheses 76anxiety 73appearance 114–15, 171Armies of the Night, The (Mailer)

xii, xivArnold, Matthew xvArnold, Thomas 145atrocities 68–71Auden, W. H. xviiiAuerbach, Nina xviiiAusten, Charles 158Austen-Leigh, James Edward 1,

162authority 210, 234–5, 247, 248awakening 49–50Awakening, The (Chopin) 49

Babb, Howard S. 37, 121Bachelard, Gaston 49Badiell, David 19balance 96Balzac, Honoré de 5, 8, 274Barthes, Roland 54, 62, 220‘Barton Cottage’ 93‘Bates, Miss’ 196, 197–8, 200, 202‘Bates, Mrs’ 196Bath 58–9, 204, 218, 226‘Beauforts, Miss’ 264, 273beginnings 51–2Bellow, Saul 142‘Bennet, Elizabeth’ xxv, 8, 105,

140, 143; appearance andreality 114–15, 116; blushing131; change 111–13;character 125–6;consciousness 130; crossingsocial space 129; Darcy’sportrait 119–20; education 24;impressions 107, 109, 123;knowledge 106; language127; leaving parental home55; liveliness and laughter134–5, 136; love 133–4;movement 36; Pemberley118–19, 128; performanceand reflection 122, 123;pictures 116, 117; playfulness136–8; recognition 118; role-playing 125

‘Bennet, Jane’ xxvi, 111, 115, 124‘Bennet, Lydia’ 120, 123, 134–5

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Index

Entries for fictional characters and places are given in singlequotation marks, e.g. ‘Price, Fanny’, ‘Highbury’.

All works are by Jane Austen unless otherwise attributed.Page references for notes are followed by n.

‘Bennet, Mary’ 110, 124, 138‘Bennet, Mr’ 45, 123, 124, 133‘Bennet, Mrs’ 124, 126–7, 129–30Bentham, Jeremy 231‘Benwick, Captain’ 215, 223, 224,

239, 240Bernstein, Basil 127‘Bertram, Edmund’ 149, 153–4;

and Mary Crawford 155,160–1; and Fanny 157, 172,173; Fanny’s cross and chain159; ordination 169, 170;theatricals 163, 164, 165–6,168

‘Bertram, Julia’ 148, 149, 153, 161,163, 165

‘Bertram, Lady’ 148, 152, 153, 163‘Bertram, Maria’ 149, 153; and

Henry Crawford 159–60;London 148; marriage 151,152; Sotherton 161;theatricals 163–4, 165

‘Bertram, Sir Thomas’ 19, 151–2,173; absence 148–9, 162, 163;acting 168; and Fanny 157; asfather 45; return 166–7;theatricals 168

‘Bertram, Tom’ 148, 149, 153, 162,163, 166–7

Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche)63

‘Bingley, Miss’ 116–17, 120‘Bingley, Charles’ 46, 124, 125–6Blackstone, William 16Blake, William 140–1blushing 131body 209Bonaparte, Napoleon 2, 4, 103,

211boundaries 138–40, 141Bowdler, John 18Box Hill 41, 176, 187, 193, 200, 202,

218Bradbury, Malcolm ix‘Brandon, Colonel’ 78, 79, 89, 97,

100; secrecy 79, 80‘Brereton, Clara’ 264, 265, 277,

279, 280–1

Brontë, Charlotte 3–4, 7, 103, 120,138–9, 186

Brontë, Emily 97, 100–1Brothers Karamazov, The

(Dostoyevsky) 99Brower, Reuben 121Brown, Norman O. 131Brummell, Beau 150Burke, Edmund 2, 17, 26–7, 170,

226Burney, Fanny 19, 56, 107–8Burns, Robert 275Burrows, John xxiibusyness 270–2Butler, Marilyn xvii–xviii, xix, xx,

44Byron, Lord x, 140

‘Campbells’ 188card games 158, 257caricature 125carriages 250–2, 281Carroll, Lewis 269Castle, Terry xixCatcher in the Rye (Salinger) xvCecilia (Burney) 107–8change: Mansfield Park 173, 174;

Persuasion 211, 220–1;Sanditon 252, 262–3

Changing Places (Lodge) ix,xvi–xvii

Chapman, R. W. 107Chapman, Robert xxii–xxiiicharacter 125–6Characteristics (Shaftesbury)

27–8Chekhov, Anton 48Chesterfield, Lord 26, 170, 226Chopin, Kate 49‘Churchill, Miss’ 194‘Churchill, Mrs’ 197‘Churchill, Frank’ 202; and

Emma 181, 188, 191, 197, 199,201, 206; and Jane Fairfax198; as gentleman 196; haircut 41; manners 29, 30;novelty 191

circles 272–4

292 Index

Civilisation and its Discontents(Freud) 77, 99

civility 137Clarissa (Richardson) 83, 156,

277–8, 280class 194–5‘Clay, Mrs’ 221, 237clearing 64–8Clueless xxiiCobb, Lyme 219, 233–4Cobbett, William 144–5Cohen, F. S. 19Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 95, 140‘Coles’ 194–5‘Collins, Mr’ 107, 112, 118, 120,

128, 133common life 73communication 41–2, 235–44community 12–13, 16, 20–4, 122company 12, 13concealment 65–8, 206, see also

secrecyconduct 97–8, 132, 170Congreve, William 101connexions 216–17Conrad, Joseph xv, 68, 70–1, 229,

253consciousness 106, 112, 130, 134,

135control 98conversation 25, 30–1, 59–60, 181–2Cottesbrooke 146Country and the City, The

(Williams) 15–16Cowper, William 82‘Crawford, Henry’ xxvi, 46; acting

163–4, 169; card game 158;and Fanny 157, 172; Fanny’scross and chain 159; asimprover 159–60, 161;London 148, 149–50; qualitiesand faults 154, 155–6, 171;role-playing 93; theatricals164, 165, 169

‘Crawford, Mary’: and EdmundBertram 154; card game 158;clergymen 169, 170; horse-riding 97; as improver 160–1;

London 148, 149–50;Mansfield Park 150;playfulness 138; qualitiesand faults 154–5, 171;theatricals 164, 165, 168–9

‘Croft, Admiral’ 223, 226, 228,236, 250

‘Croft, Mrs’ 223, 224, 228, 232, 250Crook, Nora 237

‘Dalrymple, Lady’ 217, 218dancing 59, 131–2Daniel Deronda (Eliot) 51‘Darcy, Fitzwilliam’ 46, 105, 118;

appearance and reality 114,115, 116; character 126;consciousness 130, 135;crossing social space 128,129–30; education 24; andElizabeth 136–7; Elizabeth’simpressions of 107, 111,112–13, 123; letter-writing121, 122; pictures 117;portrait 119–20; role-playing124; and Wickham 104

‘Dashwood, Mr’ 45, 80–1‘Dashwood, Mrs’ 92‘Dashwood, Elinor’ 78, 79, 89;

language 92, 93, 94; andMarianne 96–9, 100; nature95; private and public 86, 87,88; screen-making 85, 86, 88,90; secrecy 80; sensibility 77

‘Dashwood, Fanny’ 79‘Dashwood, John’ 79, 92, 93, 102‘Dashwood, Marianne’ xxvii, 78,

79, 140; and Elinor 96–9;language 91–2, 93, 94, 96;marriage 100, 101; nature 95;private and public 86, 87;scream 75, 87–8, 89–90;screens 85; secrecy 80; sense77; sickness 81–5

‘de Bourgh, Lady Catherine’ 107,124, 125, 128, 129

decorum 194, 227Defoe, Daniel 50, 52, 55‘Dejection’ (Coleridge) 95

Index 293

Deleuze, Gilles 52‘Denham, Lady’ 264, 280, 284;

house 283–4; money 264–5,267, 273, 276; want ofemployment 269

‘Denham, Sir Edward’ xxii, 254,264, 272; literaryappreciation 274–7, 278–9,280; secret meeting 280–1;want of employment 269–70

‘Denham, Esther’ 264‘Denham, Sir Harry’ 264, 283Deserted Village, The (Goldsmith)

222Dialectic of Enlightenment

(Horkheimer and Adorno) 50dialogue 37, 41–2Dickens, Charles 21, 23Didion, Joan xiidiscourses: Emma 200–3;

Persuasion 220; Sanditon 264,267–9, 274–80

‘Dixons’ 188Dombey and Son (Dickens) 21, 23domestic happiness 203–4Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 99drama 37, 121–2, 162–6dreams 47, 50dress 60–2, 63–4, 65Duckworth, Alistair 160

Edgeworth, Maria 76, 77education 24–35, 69Ehrenpreis, Anne Henry 44Ehrenpreis, Irvin xvii, xxElective Affinities (Goethe) 20elegance 191–3, 197Elinor and Marianne 75–6, see also

Sense and SensibilityEliot, George 8, 11, 76; Daniel

Deronda 51; Middlemarch21–2, 23–4; The Mill on theFloss 99, 100

‘Elliot, Lady’ 223‘Elliot, Mr’ 214; and Anne 230–1,

236, 238, 248; and Mrs Clay237; manners 26, 226–7; rank216, 217

‘Elliot, Anne’ xxvii, 173–4, 208,209, 263, 3210; and Benwick224; in between 249; andCrofts 228, 232; education 24;and Mr Elliot 230–1; fromprudence to romance 212–13,248; and Harvilles 224, 230;Kellynch Hall 223; manners227; marriage 222, 244–5; andMusgroves 225, 226; as anobody 217; passion 8;resolution 233, 234; and LadyRussell 246–7, 248; speech 6,220; transplantation 218, 219;utility 231, 232, 234; andWentworth 210, 211–12,213–14, 234, 235, 236–7,238–9, 241–4, 249; writing239–40

‘Elliot, Elizabeth’ 209, 217, 237‘Elliot, Sir Walter’ 145, 213, 257;

book of books 208–9, 210,240, 241, 242; connexions 217;family name 218; as father45–6; Kellynch Hall 222–3;and Mrs Clay 237; navy 229,231; negative 212; as anobody 217; property 221–2

Ellison, Ralph 136‘Elton, Mr’ 185; and Emma 182,

197; as gentleman 196;pushing 189–90; and HarrietSmith 181, 183, 184, 187

‘Elton, Mrs’ 38, 176, 185–6, 202Emerson, Ralph Waldo 9–11Emma x, 7, 8, 204–7, 211, 218; class

194–7; community 21, 22–3;domestic happiness 203–4;education 24, 32; Emma176–7, 188–9, 197–200; Emmaand Harriet Smith 180–5;Emma’s imagination 187–8;Emma’s match-making179–80; Emma’s occupation186–7; family 227; fathers 45,46; female occupation 185–6;language 6, 38, 39, 41, 42;manners 29, 30; money 13;

294 Index

persuasion 247–8; propriety20; sea 229; society 189–94;speech 200–3; textcorrections xxvi–xxvii

emotions 134, 246employment 32, 269–70enclosed spaces 49energy 140–1Enlightenment 98, 140Enquiry Concerning Human

Understanding, An (Hume)109, 110, 139

Enquiry Concerning the Principlesof Morals (Hume) 109

Enquiry into the Duties of theFemale Sex (Gisborne) 30–3

Essay Concerning HumanUnderstanding (Locke) 106,139, 140

Evelina (Burney) 56eventfulness 51evils 203experience 110eyes 88–9, 90, 236

‘Fairfax, Jane’ 188, 197, 204, 206;and Frank Churchill 198;elegance 192; manners 29;occupation 185–6

family 205–6, 213, 227–8farming 195fathers 45–6, 124‘Ferrars, Edward’ 78, 79, 87, 94,

95, 97, 100‘Ferrars, Robert’ 79, 80, 93Fielding, Henry 52–3, 142first impressions 106–10, 123–4First Impressions 106–8, 127, see

also Pride and PrejudiceFirst Impressions (Holford) 107‘First Letter on a Regicide Peace’

(Burke) 26–7Fitzgerald, F. Scott 113, 245Flaubert, Gustave 11, 198, 269flirtation 199–200Ford, Ford Madox 48, 174–5Forster, E. M. 99Foucault, Michel 82–4

France, war with 4, 27, 144, 149,211, 228

freedom 98French Revolution 2, 13, 17, 27,

69Freud, Sigmund 77, 87, 99, 131

Galperin, William xxiiigardenstuff 266–7‘Gardiner, Mr’ 120‘Gardiner, Mrs’ 111, 132–3gentlemen 195–6, 217–18, 252–3Gilbert, Sandra xviii, xixgipsies 39Gisborne, Thomas 30–3Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 20Goffman, Erving 123Golden Bowl, The (James) 158, 200Goldsmith, Oliver 205, 222Good Soldier, The (Ford) 48Gordon Riots 17Gothic 43, 44, 47, 48–9, 64–5, 159Gowland’s Lotion 237‘Grant, Mrs’ 149, 150, 165Great Gatsby, The (Fitzgerald) 245‘Great House’ 218, 224–6‘Griffiths’ 271–2Gubar, Susan xviii, xix

Hagstrum, Jean 78Hair xivHamlet (Shakespeare) 93, 101Harding, D. W. xviii, xx, 125Hardy, Thomas 142, 256‘Hartfield’ 189, 196, 205‘Harville, Captain’ 215, 223, 224,

230, 239–41‘Harville, Mrs’ 223, 224, 230‘Harville, Fanny’ 239, 240Hay, Douglas 16–17‘Hayter, Charles’ 217, 221hazel nuts 233, 235Heart of Darkness (Conrad) 70–1Heidegger, Martin 66–7Hendin, Josephine xxHenry VIII (Shakespeare) 169Herbert, George 174heroic couplet 76

Index 295

heroines 56–8, 138, 142–4, 173,212–13

‘Heywood, Mr’ 252, 259–60, 263,270, 272

‘Heywood, Charlotte’ 254, 263–4,272, 284; and Clara Brereton279; and Sir EdwardDenham 274–5, 276; glimpse282–3; Lady Denham’s house283; Sanditon 285; sea 258;secret meeting 280–1

Hidden from History (Rowbotham)44

‘Highbury’ 189, 191, 192, 205, 206history 44, 103–4, 258–9Hobbes, Thomas 71, 73–4Holford, Mrs 107Holland, Peter xiii‘Hollis, Mr’ 264, 283home, leaving 51, 52, 55–6homecoming 50–1Homer 50Horkheimer, Max 50Howards End (Forster) 99Huckleberry Finn (Twain) xvhuman nature 71–3Hume, David 12, 71–2, 108–10,

139‘Hurst, Mr’ 114hypochondria 267–9

ideology 4–6illness see sicknessIllusions perdues (Balzac) 274imagination 187–8, 198impressions 106–10, 123–4impropriety 147, 168, 171imprudence 133Inchbald, Mrs 76, 164–5Industrial Revolution 4, 13, 104inflation 265–6Invisible Man, The (Ellison) 136

Jacobins 2, 69, 104, 144Jakobson, Roman 64James, Henry viii, xii, xv, 8–9, 36,

50, 51, 157, 245; The GoldenBowl 158, 200; on Hedda

Gabler 98; ‘The New Novel’11; The Portrait of a Lady 142,147; The Wings of the Dove156

Jane Eyre (Brontë) 139Jay, Douglas 13‘Jennings, Mrs’ 79, 89, 91Johnson, Claudia xviiiJohnson, Dr 16, 19, 34, 51Jonson, Ben 269Joyce, James 202Jude the Obscure (Hardy) 142

Keats, John xxiii, 140‘Kellynch Hall’ 145, 208, 213, 214,

218, 222–3, 228, 237Kent, Christopher 104Kermode, Frank xKind der Liebe, Das (Kotzebue) 164King Lear (Shakespeare) 105, 112,

115, 116, 200Kipling, Rudyard xxi‘Knightley, George’ xxvi–xxvii,

46; and Emma 30, 182, 183,186–7, 188, 191, 198, 204, 205;Emma’s match-making 179,180; as gentleman 196;mystery and finesse 206, 207;and Harriet Smith 181, 182,183; speech 181–2, 200, 201,202, 204

‘Knightley, Mrs Isabella’ 232‘Knightley, John’ 187, 202, 204knowledge 105–6Kosofsky-Sedgwick, Eve xixKotzebue, August von 164

Lady Susan 75–6, 91‘Lambe, Miss’ 264language xxii, 6–7, 35–42; Emma

181–2, 184, 191–2; metaphors64; Persuasion 220–1, 243;Pride and Prejudice 112–13,126–7, 130–1; propriety 20;Sanditon 268; Sense andSensibility 90–6

laughing 137, 138laughter 135, 197

296 Index

Lawrence, D. H. 142Lefroy, Tom xxletter-writing 62–3; Persuasion

241–2; Pride and Prejudice112–13, 120–1, 122

Letters of Julia and Caroline(Edgeworth) 76, 77

Letters to his Son (Chesterfield) 26Leviathan (Hobbes) 71, 73–4Lewes, G. H. 103Litz, Walton 75, 76, 77, 121liveliness 134–6Liverpool, Lord 144Locke, John 34, 76, 105, 170, 226;

Essay Concerning HumanUnderstanding 106, 139, 140;The Second Treatise ofGovernment 16; SomeThoughts ConcerningEducation 25–6

Lodge, David ix, xvi–xviiLondon 23–4, 144, 148, 149–50,

151, 169love 20, 35; Persuasion 242, 243;

Pride and Prejudice 130–1,132–4

Love and Friendship 251Lovers’ Vows (Inchbald) 164–5, 167‘Lucas, Charlotte’ 127, 133, 134‘Lucas, Sir William’ 136Lyme 218, 219, 229–30, 233–4Lynch, Deirdre xxiLyrical Ballads 140

Macbeth (Shakespeare) 203Mackenzie, Henry 77, 275McMaster, Juliet xxMadame Bovary (Flaubert) 198,

269madness 82–4Madness and Civilization

(Foucault) 82–4Mailer, Norman xii, xivMan Could Stand Up, A (Ford)

174–5manners 18–19, 24–5, 26–30;

Mansfield Park 170; Persuasion226–7, 231

‘Mansfield Park’ 144, 146, 147–8,150–1, 173–4, 205; LadyBertram 152; Maria Bertram153; Sir Thomas Bertram148–9, 151, 152; Mrs Norris152–3; Fanny Price 156–7,206, 244, 245; theatricals 162,164, 166, 167–8

Mansfield Park xvii, 173–4, 175,190, 218, 244; background144–5; Lady Bertram 152; SirThomas Bertram 151–2;Bertram children 153–4;card game 158, 257;Crawfords 93, 97, 154–6;cross and chain 158–9;details 157–8; drama 37;education 24, 32, 34, 35;fathers 45, 46; improvingestates 159–62, 223;language 6, 39–40; letter-writing 62–3; London 148,149–50, 151; Mansfield Park146, 147–9, 150–1, 205, 206,245; marriage 172–3; money15; Mrs Norris 152–3;ordination 169–70;Portsmouth 146–7, 224;Fanny Price 138, 142–4,156–7, 171–2; property 19;surprise 38; text correctionsxxvi; theatricals 162–9

‘Marland, Mrs’ 232marriage 6, 9–11, 19, 32, 35; and

dancing 59; Emma 179–80,186–7, 197; and fathers 46;Mansfield Park 173; Persuasion244–6; Pride and Prejudice 133,135; Sense and Sensibility 75;and sexuality 63

Marriage of Heaven and Hell(Blake) 140–1

‘Martin, Robert’ 180, 183, 192,195, 196

match-making 178–80Melville, Herman 230men: adventurers 52; freedom 46;

manners 29–30

Index 297

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice 285metaphors 64metonymy 64Middlemarch (Eliot) 21–2, 23–4‘Middleton, Lady’ 90‘Middleton, Sir John’ 79, 88, 96militia 104Mill, John Stuart 98Mill on the Floss, The (Eliot) 99,

101Mille plateaux (Deleuze and

Guattari) 52Milton, John 278mist 281–2Moers, Ellen xviiiMonaghan, David 196money 13–15, 46–7, 150, 180, 264More, Hannah 33–4‘Morland, Mr’ 45‘Morland, Catherine’: anxiety 73;

atrocities 68–9, 70;awakening 49–50; clearingand concealment 64–5, 67–8;dress 60, 61; Gothicexpectations 48–9; as heroine56–8; history 44;homecoming 50–1; humannature 72–3; immobility58–60; language 64; leavinghome 56; Northanger Abbey43–4; reading 45

‘Morland, Sally (Sarah)’ 64mothers 232movement 36–7, 190Mudrick, Marvin xviii, 126Mullan, Dr John 78‘Musgrove, Mrs’ 232, 238‘Musgrove, Charles’ 234‘Musgrove, Louisa’ xxvii, 230,

247, 248, 249; accident 40;and Benwick 239, 240;resolution and wilfulness233–4; stillness 237–8

‘Musgrove, Mary’ 231, 234, 245;and Sir Walter Elliot 209;property 221; rank 216

Mysteries of Udolpho, The(Radcliffe) 48–9, 58, 107

Napoleon 2, 4, 103, 211Napoleonic Wars 4, 27, 144, 211,

228narcissism 63nature xiv, 95, 102, 159Nature and Art (Inchbald) 76navy 223–4, 228–30, 231‘New Novel, The’ (James) 11Newton, Benjamin 13–15Nietzsche, Friedrich 63Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, The

(Conrad) 229nomads 52‘Norris, Mrs’ 6, 147, 151, 152–3,

163‘Northanger Abbey’ 43–4, 60,

64–5Northanger Abbey xiv–xv, xxiv,

279; Abbey 43–4; alteration51; anger 46–7; atrocities68–71; awakening 49–50;clearing and concealment64–8; conclusion 73–4; dress60–2; Gothic expectations48–9; heroine 56–8;homecoming 50–1; humannature 71–3; immobility58–60; language 64; leavinghome 56; marriage 63;picturesque 159; reading44–5, 47; text correctionsxxv–xxvi

nostoi 50–1Nostromo (Conrad) 253Nouvelle Héloïse, La (Rousseau)

209–10novels 57; adventurers 52–3;

beginnings 51–2; nothinghappens 53–5; sentimental78

nuts 233, 235

occupation 32, 185–7Odyssey 50Oedipus Rex (Sophocles) 105, 114Old Mortality (Scott) 7One Fat Englishman (Amis) ixopenness 206–7

298 Index

ordination 169–70‘Origin of the Work of Art, The’

(Heidegger) 66–7Othello (Shakespeare) 116, 243

Page, Norman xxiiPaine, Thomas 2Pamela (Richardson) 53–5Parade’s End (Ford) 174–5Paradise Lost (Milton) 278‘Parker, Mr’ 255, 280; advertising-

rhetoric 259–62, 268;busyness 270; circulatinglibrary 272, 285; gardenstuff266–7; house 256–8; inflation265–6; sea 258; want ofemployment 269

‘Parker, Mrs’ 257‘Parker, Arthur’ 264, 267, 269, 270,

272‘Parker, Diana’ 264, 267, 268–9,

270–1, 272, 280‘Parker, Mary’ 264‘Parker, Sidney’ 264, 269, 281,

285‘Parker, Susan’ 264, 267Pellew, George 8‘Pemberley’ 107, 116, 118–20, 128,

134, 135–6, 137, 205Peninsular War 4, 27, 144performance 122–3persuasion 247–8Persuasion x, xv, xx, 5, 173–4, 206,

208–9, 210–11, 257, 263;communication 235–44;Crofts 250; education 24, 35;Anne Elliot 212–13, 244–6;Sir Walter Elliot 145; family227–8; fathers 45–6; GreatHouse 224–6; Kellynch Hall222–3; language 6, 38, 40,220–1; manners 226–7; navy223–4, 228–30; PeninsularWar 4, 7; property andplaces 17, 218–19, 221–2;resolution and wilfulness232–5; restoration 214–15;Lady Russell 246–7, 248–9;

sea 258; society 215–18; textcorrections xxvii; time211–12, 213–14; utility 231–2;what lasts 215; wreckage213

Phèdre (Racine) 105Philosophes 98pictures 116–17picturesque 159Pilgrim, Constance xxPlato 162Play it as it Lays (Didion) xiiplayfulness 126–7, 141, 197Poetics of Space (Bachelard) 49poetry 76Poovey, Mary xviiiPope, Alexander 76Porter, Roy 18Portrait of a Lady, The (James) 142,

147portraits 116–18, 239–40Portsmouth 144, 146–7, 148, 168,

224power 185Prendergast, Christopher 274‘Price, Fanny’ 8, 19, 48, 138,

142–4, 171–2, 173, 212, 263;and Edmund Bertram 153,154, 172, 173; and SirThomas Bertram 151–2; cardgame 158; clergymen 169;and Henry Crawford 149,155, 169; and Mary Crawford149, 155; cross and chain158–9; education 24; home39–40; independence 34;language 6; London 150;Mansfield Park 146, 147–8,206, 245; marriage 38;metamorphosis 168; andMrs Norris 152; on-linediscussion xxi; Portsmouth146–7, 168, 218, 224; qualities156–7, 171, 244; Sotherton160, 161–2; theatricals 163,164, 165–6

‘Price, Susan’ 148‘Price, William’ 146–7, 148, 158

Index 299

Pride and Prejudice xxii, 76, 105,137–8, 168, 205; appearanceand reality 114–16; Brontë’scriticisms 103, 138–9; change110–13; character andcaricature 125–6; drama121–2; education 24; energyand reason 140–1; fathers 45,46; first impressions 106–10;and history 103–4;knowledge 105–6; language36, 126–7; letter-writing120–1, 122; liveliness andlaughter 134–6; love 132–4;Peninsular War 4; physicalcontacts 131; pictures 116–17;playfulness 136–8; portraits116–18; role-playing 122–5;social space 127–9; society104–5, 128–31; textcorrections xxv, xxvi

Princess Casamassima, The (James)viii

Progress of Romance, The (Reeve)57n

property 16–20, 75, 180, 221–2,245

propriety 18–20; Mansfield Park146–7, 168, 171; Persuasion227, 230

Proust, Marcel 36prudence 212, 213, 230, 248

Racine, Jean 105Radcliffe, Ann 48–9, 58, 107rank 216, 217, 221, 223–4reading 44–5, 47reality 47, 50, 171, 237; and

appearance 114, 115–16reason 110, 141recognition 105, 118, 119–20, 215Reece’s Gazette of Health 237Reeve, Clara 57nreflection 122, 123‘Reform or Ruin’ (Bowdler) 18religion 31, 33, 34“Republic of Pemberley, The”

xxi, xxii

resolution 233restoration 214–15Resurrection (Tolstoy) 134‘Reynolds, Mrs’ 119Reynolds, Sir Joshua 117–18Richardson, Samuel 52, 77, 78,

118; Clarissa 83, 156, 277–8,279–80; Pamela 53–5; SirCharles Grandison 107, 280

Roberts, Warren 70, 228Robinson Crusoe (Defoe) 50, 52, 55role distance 123, 124role-playing 122–5, 162, 163romance 57n, 212, 213Romantic movement 91, 140, 231Room of One’s Own, A (Woolf)

35–6‘Rosings’ 121rote learning 272Rouge et le noir, Le (Stendhal) 142Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 98,

209–10Rowbotham, Sheila 44Royal Navy 223–4, 228–30, 231Ruoff, Gene xviirural life 144, 145‘Rushworth, Mr’ 151, 159, 160,

161, 165Ruskin, John 95–6‘Russell, Lady’ 215, 248–9; Bath

226; and Anne Elliot 213, 214,233, 234, 246–7; and SirWalter Elliot 223; manners226; rank 216

Ryle, Gilbert 132

Said, Edward 51Saintsbury, George xxiSalinger, J. D. xv‘Sanditon’ 253–6, 261, 284, 285;

circulation 272–3; economy266–7; Mr Parker’s house256–8

Sanditon xix, 146, 190, 284–5;busyness 270–2; carriagecrash 250–2, 259, 262; change262–3; circles 272–4; LadyDenham’s house 283–4;

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doubling 253–4; glimpse282–3; Charlotte Heywood263–4; Heywoods 252;history 258–9; hypochondria267–9; language 40–1; literaryappreciation xxii, 274–80;main characters 264; MrParker 252–3; Mr Parker’sgardenstuff 266–7; MrParker’s house 256–8; MrParker’s speech 259–61;Sanditon 254–6; sea 258;secret meeting 280–1;sickness 261–2; Sidney’sarrival 281–2; society 12; textcorrections xxv, xxvii; wantof employment 269–70

Sartre, Jean-Paul 122Scott, Sir Walter xxiv, 7, 140, 275scream 75, 102screens 88, 89, 90, 101sea 229–30, 245, 258, 275Second Treatise of Government, The

(Locke) 16secrecy 75, 79–81, 86, 206sedentary 52sense 77, 159Sense and Sensibility xiv, 75–7, 140;

end 100–1; eyes 88–9; fathers45, 46; language 90–6; letters121; Marianne and Elinor96–9; money 14, 15; plotgeometry 78–9; screamingand screening 85–6, 89–90;secrecy 79–81; sickness 81–5;society 86–8

sensibility 77–8, 84–5, 159sentimental novels 78Sex and Character (Weininger)

176–9sexual attraction 63, 133, 171–2,

181, 182Shaftesbury, 3rd Earl of 27–8, 132Shakespeare, William 211;

Hamlet 93, 101; Henry VIII169; King Lear 105, 112, 115,116, 200; Macbeth 203; Othello116, 243

sheath 87, 89–90, 102Shelley, Percy Bysshe 140‘Shepherd, Mr’ 217, 222, 232Shirley (Brontë) 3–4, 7Showalter, Elaine xviiishyness 156sickness: Sanditon 261–2, 267–9,

279; Sense and Sensibility 75,81–5, 90, 99

Simpson, David xiiiSimpson, Richard 13Sir Charles Grandison

(Richardson) 78, 107, 280sisters 96–9slavery 149‘Smith, Mrs’ 218, 225, 227Smith, Adam 17‘Smith, Harriet’ 204; and Mr

Elton 189, 190; and Emma180–5, 187, 188, 191, 198, 199,247; rank 195

Smollett, Tobias 204Smythe-Palmer, A. 196social order 12, 16–17, 20, 170social space 126–9, 135–6society xv, 12–24, 35; Emma 184–5,

189–94, 195, 203, 205–6; andlanguage 39, 40–1; MansfieldPark 168; Persuasion 215–18,220–1, 225, 244, 246, 248–9;Pride and Prejudice 104–5, 120,128–31, 132–3, 136; Sanditon266, 273, 274; Sense andSensibility 79, 81, 84–5, 86–8,98, 100, 101–2

soldiers 103–4Some Thoughts Concerning

Education (Locke) 25–6Sons and Lovers (Lawrence) 142Sophocles 105, 114‘Sotherton’ 159–62Southam, Brian 106–7, 121Spack, Patricia Meyer xviii‘Speculation’ (card game) 158,

257speech 6–7; Emma 200–3;

Persuasion 220; Sanditon260–1

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steadiness 25–6‘Steele, Lucy’ 78, 79, 80–1, 84,

93Steiner, George xxiiStendhal 142stillness 36–7, 52, 172, 173, 190,

237–8Strictures on the Modern System of

Female Education (More) 33–4‘Stringers’ 266Sutherland, Kathryn xxiiiSwift, Jonathan 68syphilis 237

Tave, Stuart xxii‘Taylor, Miss’ 179Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Hardy)

256Thackeray, William Makepeace

142theatricals 162–9, 170Thompson, E. P. 2‘Thornton Lacey’ 160‘Thorpe, John’ 59‘Tilney, General’: anger 74;

atrocities 68–9, 70;concealment 65; failure as host and parent 43, 45,46–7

‘Tilney, Miss’ 68–9‘Tilney, Henry’ xxiv, 47; anxiety

73, 74; atrocities 69, 70, 71;dancing 59; marriage 63;picturesque 159

time 211–12, 213–14, 215Todd, Janet xxiiiTolstoy, Leo 11, 50, 131–2, 134Tom Jones (Fielding) 142Tory party 4–6, 144trade 194, 195Trafalgar 228, 258, 259transplantation 218–19Treatise of Human Nature (Hume)

71–2, 108–9Trilling, Lionel 156, 162, 171Trollope, Anthony 196truth 66, 68, 110, 137, 207, 277Twain, Mark xv

Udolpho (Radcliffe) 48–9, 58, 107unity 137‘Uppercross’ 214, 218, 219, 229,

244utility 231–2, 244

vanity 209, 272Vanity Fair (Thackeray) 142Vicar of Wakefield, The

(Goldsmith) 205violence 37–8virginity 49, 161

‘Wallis, Captain’ 217Warren, Austen 64Washington Square (James) 9Waterloo 2, 4, 258, 259‘Watson, Emma’ 128Watsons, The 127–8, 131Way of the World, The (Congreve)

101Weininger, Otto 176–9Wellek, Rene 64‘Wentworth, Edward’ 217‘Wentworth, Captain Frederick’

7, 46; and Anne 210, 211–12,213–14, 215, 234–5, 236–7,238–9, 241–4, 247, 248; andLouisa 233; marriage 244–6;navy 228; rank 217

West Indies 149‘Weston, Mr’ 179‘Weston, Mrs’ 198Whig party 144Whitman, Walt 163‘Wickham, George’: appearance

and reality 114, 115, 116;disruptive presence 104;Elizabeth’s impressions of107, 112–13; elopement 120,129–30n; mercenary 133;opinions of 111; role-playing124; wildness 134–5

wildness 134–5, 234wilfulness 233–4Williams, Raymond 15–16‘Willoughby, John’ 46, 78, 81, 82,

85; language 93–4; Marianne

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and Elinor’s response to96–7; secrecy 79, 80; snub 89

Wingfield-Stratford, Esmé 4Wings of the Dove, The (James)

156women: abandoned 46;

adventurers 52–3;concealment of knowledge65–6; dress 63; education30–5, 69; language 35–6;match-making 177–9;occupation 185–6; Persuasion232, 240; in society 20–4

wood of love 160‘Woodhouse, Mr’: Emma’s

match-making 179–80; asfather 45, 176, 188;housebreaking 205; sea 229;speech 200–1, 202

‘Woodhouse, Emma’ xxvii, 46,176–7, 197–200, 231; andFrank Churchill 201; class-consciousness 194–7; andcommunity 21, 22–3; as

disruptive figure 188–9;education 24, 32; and MrElton 189–90; and JaneFairfax 192; imagination187–8; and Knightley 201,204, 205; leaving parentalhome 55; manners 29, 30;match-making 179–80;occupation 186–7; opennessand simplicity 206–7; passion8; persuasion 247–8;propriety 20; rudeness 38;sea 229; and Harriet Smith180–5; speech 6, 202–3, 204;and Mr Woodhouse 200

Woolf, Virginia 35–6, 85–6Wordsworth, John xxWordsworth, William xxivWordsworth Circle, The xviiwriting 239–42Wuthering Heights (Brontë) 97,

100–1

‘Yates, Mr’ 148, 163, 165, 166, 167

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