Arnold, Matthew, 23, 44, 52, 65, 122. Works: “Memorial Verses,” 42; “Rugby Chapel,” 53
benevolence, 54–56, 127, 128, 135
Bible, 37
Blake, William, 38, 59, 112, 126
Boswell, 35, 51–52; Life of Johnson, 35, 51
Bradshaigh, Lady, 30–31
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 136
Browning, Robert, 12, 23, 54; “Pictor Ignotus,” 12
Burton, J. H., 76; Life and Correspondence of David Hume, 76
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 42, 129, 134
Carlyle, Thomas, 7, 10, 20–22, 25, 35, 54, 70, 72, 121–143. Works: “Characteristics,” 132; Collected Miscellaneous Essays, 123, 124, 132, 133; Frederick the Great, 123, 126; Heroes and Hero-Worship, 127, 130, 131, 140; The Life of John Sterling, 134; Past and Present, 139; Sartor Resartus, 123, 129
Carroll, Lewis, 38
Clough, Arthur Hugh, 52
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 33, 42, 134
Collins, Wilkie, 58, 60, 72; Woman in White, 58
Cromwell, Oliver, 126
Defoe, Daniel, 21–26; Moll Flanders, 23–24
Dickens, Charles, 3, 4, 7–8, 10–11, 20–23, 29, 32, 34–56, 58–76, 80–81, 83–85, 87–88, 90–93, 95 102, 105, 109, 116–117, 121, 125, 128, 131, 132, 134, 135, 136, 138, 142, 143. Characters: Blackpool, Stephen, 65; Boffin, Nicodemus, 3, 55–57, 59; Brownlow, 54, 128; Carker, 63, 68; Carton, Sidney, 63, 68; Cheerybles, 54–55; Chuzzlewit, Martin, 68; Claypool, Noah, 49; Clennam, Arthur, 63, 68; Clennam, Mrs., 63; Crisparkle, Reverend, 39; Dombey, Fanny, 62; Dombey, Paul, 47–48, 50–51, 66; Gargery, Joe, 70; Gradgrind, Louisa, 63, 68; Grainger, Edith, 51; Havisham, Mrs., 63; Headstone, Bradley, 65; Heep, 63, 69; Hexam, Lizzie, 64; Higden, Betty, 44, 64; Jarndyce, John, 55; Jellby, Mrs., 128; Jingle, 63; Jo, 67–68;Jupe, Sissy, 63; Lammle, Alfred, 56–57, 60; Lammle, Sophronia, 56–57, 60–63; Little Dorrit, 38, 40, 62–63, 65–68, 80; Little Nell, 32, 38, 40–41, 44, 46, 48–50, 62–65, 68; Magwitch, Abel, 56; Martha, 29; Monk, 63; Nancy, 29, 67; Nickleby, Nicholas, 62, 67; Nickleby, Ralph, 63; Orlick, 63, 68; Pickwick, 39, 62, 128; Pinch, Ruth, 62; Pip, 62, 70; Podsnap, Georgiana, 56–57, 61;
Dickens, Charles (cond.) Quilp, 63, 68–69; Riderhood, Rogue, 65, 68–69; Scrooge, 68; Skewton, Cleopatra, 51; Sleary, 55; Smike, 68; Squeers, 68; Summerson, Esther, 40, 62–63; Tigg, Montague, 65; Varden, Dolly, 62; Veneerings, 58; Wegg, Silas, 63; Wemmick, 55; Wilfer, Bella, 62, 68; Wrayburn, Eugene, 39, 64–65. Works: Barnaby Rudge, 49; Bleak House, 55, 67, 128; Christmas Carol, 39: David Copperfield, 29, 83; Dombey and Son, 48, 50–51, 63, 66–67; Great Expectations, 56, 70; Hard Times, 41, 65; Little Dorrit, 65; Martin Chuzlewit, 49; Nicholas Nickleby, 3, 43, 49, 54, 62, 91; Old Curiosity Shop, 43–45, 47, 84; Oliver Twist, 29, 43, 49, 54, 62, 67; Our Mutual Friend, 4, 39, 56–59, 64; Pickwick Papers, 55
Diderot, 126
Dodd, William, 48–50; Reflections on Death, 48–49
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 11
Enlightenment, 12–15, 126, 127
eroticism, 126, 129, 130, 131, 132
Fechter, Charles, 81
Fielding, Henry, 7, 11, 14, 20–22, 27–32, 38–40, 65, 75, 81, 84–88, 95 105, 135. Characters: Adams, Parson, 28, 35; Allworthy, Squire, 12; Black George, 27; Blifel, 27, 29; Fanny, 28; Nightingale, Mrs., 29; Partridge, 27, 29; Square, 29; Thwackum, 29; Western, Sophia, 12, 28–29, 32, 40, 105. Works: Amelia, 85–87; Joseph Andrews, 27–28, 35, 39–40; Tom Jones, 11–12, 22, 27, 29, 39
Fitzgerald, Edward, 76
Forster, John, 34–35, 51, 71, 81; Life of Goldsmith, 35
Frith, William Powell, 71
Froude, James Anthony, 17
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 21, 129, 131; Wilhelm Meister, 21, 131
Goldsmith, Oliver, 7, 19, 20, 22, 34–35, 39–40, 51, 90–91; Primrose, Dr., 34–35, 39; The Vicar of Wakefield, 34–35, 39, 90
Hallam, Henry, 47–48
Hemans, Felicia, 41
Hobbes, Thomas, 3, 14, 23, 26, 31, 80, 132; Leviathan, 14
Home, Richard Henry, 45; The New Spirit of the Age, 45
human nature, 3–16, 20, 23–25, 27, 36–38, 42, 45, 51, 63–68, 70, 74, 76–78, 81–82, 85–90, 92–93, 95 105–106, 115–118, 124–125, 127, 132, 141–143
Hume, David, 7, 14, 18–20, 25–27, 57, 59, 76, 125, 126; Essays and Treatises, 18
Hutcheson, Francis, 7, 14, 20, 25, 31
Hutton, R. H., 47
insincerity, 47–48, 50–52, 104–105, 122, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142
Jewsbury, Geraldine, 130; Zoe, The History of Two Lives, 130
Johnson, Samuel, 14, 52, 126, 138, 140
Joyce, James, 79
Keats, John, 33, 42, 53, 134, 137
Knowles, Sheridan, 81
Lewes, George Henry, 130; Ranthorpe, 130
Mackenzie, Henry, 19, 33–34, 134; The Man of Feeling, 19, 33–34, 134
Macready, William Charles, 81
Masson, David, 74
Mill, John Stuart, 42, 64, 72, 127. Works: Autobiography (Mill), 42; “On Religion,” 64
moral philosophy, 3, 5–7, 10, 12, 21, 37, 55, 58, 61, 86, 89, 92, 125, 126, 127, 132, 134, 141, 143
moral sentiments, 3–5, 7–8, 21, 24, 29–31, 33–36, 38, 40–42, 45–46, 50–51, 54–55, 57–60, 62–63, 65, 67–70, 73, 75, 79–80, 82, 84–85, 88–90, 93, 95 98, 100–105, 107–112, 114, 116, 118–119, 128, 131, 134, 135, 138, 143
Napoleon, 126
nature, natural, unnatural, 63–69, 73–77, 115, 118, 133, 140
Newman, John Henry, 72
Oxford English Dictionary, 11, 17, 56
phallus-worship, 126, 129, 130
Pilgrim’s Progress, 142
Pope, Alexander, 7, 22, 38, 63, 76. Works: Dunciad, 22; Essay on Man, 22, 63–64; Rape of the Lock, 92
Puritanism, 3, 15–16, 23–26, 31, 36–37, 86, 128, 129
realism, 6, 7, 44, 47, 71–72, 75, 87, 143
Richardson, Samuel, 7, 22, 29–32, 39, 40, 44, 79, 81–86, 135; Lovelace, 31–32. Works: Clarissa, 22, 30–32, 39–40, 44, 46, 81–82, 85; Pamela, 81; Sir Charles Grandison, 81
Royal Shakespeare Company, 3
Rugby, 20
Ruskin, John, 72
sensibility, 8, 19–20, 32–34, 83, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138
sentimentality, definitions of, 17–18, 30, 122, 137, 139
Shaftesbury, Lord, 7, 14, 20, 25–27, 31, 68
Shakespeare, William, 21, 81, 86, 131, 135, 137, 138
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 42, 134
Smith, Adam, 7, 14, 18–20, 25, 57–58, 76, 112, 125; The Theory of Moral Sentiments, 18, 57
Smollett, Tobias, 21, 135. Works:
Smollett, Tobias (cont.) Humphry Clinker, 39; Roderick Random, 39
St. John, Henry, 14
Stella, 80
Sterne, Lawrence, 19, 20, 82–84, 98, 104, 134, 135; The Sentimental Journey, 19, 134
Swift, Jonathan, 13, 20, 38, 79, 80–82, 88, 90; Gulliver’s Travels, 13
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 42
Tennyson, Alfred, 22–23, 52, 54, 135, 136, 137, 138. Works: Idylls of the King, 135, 136, 137; “Locksley Hall,” 52; Maud, 52; Poems, 137; “Ulysses,” 137
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 7–8, 10–11, 20–23, 32, 35–36, 38, 54, 71–79, 81–88, 90–93, 95 121, 122, 125, 128, 129, 131, 135, 136, 138, 142, 143. Characters: Amory, Blanche, 104; Bell, Laura, 80, 85, 87, 89, 97–98, 110, 112; Binnie, 76; Crawley, Pitt, 87, 103, 118; Crawley, Rawdon, 103, 107–108, 111, 118; Dobbin, William, 87, 92, 99, 105, 109–110, 115–116; Esmond, Henry, 110; Little George, 105; Macmurdo, Captain, 108–109; Newcome, Clive, 101, 110, 113; Newcome, Colonel, 100; Osborne, George, 87; Pendennis, Mrs., 110; Sedley, Amelia, 32, 80, 85, 87, 92, 99, 104–105, 109–111, 115–116, 118–119; Sharp, Becky, 98, 103–104, 107–108, 110–112, 114–115, 118; Southwood, Jane, 108, 118; Steyne, Lord, 87, 108, 110–111. Works: The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century, 78–79, 81, 83–85, 90–92, 98, 121; Henry Esmond, 110; The Newcomes, 76, 97, 99, 100–102, 113; Pendennis, 85, 89, 96–99, 104, 110–113; Vanity Fair, 76–79, 85, 88, 91–92, 99, 103–104, 106–107, 109–110, 112–114, 116–118, 128, 142
Voltaire, 126
Wordsworth, William, 8, 33, 41–43, 45–46, 52–54, 134, 135. Works: “Alice Fell,” 46; “Expostulation and Reply,” 42; “Lucy Gray,” 42, 46; “Ode: Intimations of Immortality on Recollections from Early Childhood,” 45; The Prelude, 42–43; “Tintern Abbey,” 42, 54; “We Are Seven,” 44–45