Index

Arnold, Matthew, 23, 44, 52, 65, 122. Works: “Memorial Verses,” 42; “Rugby Chapel,” 53

Arnold, Thomas, 20, 42

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

Brontë, Emily, 10, 23

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

Calvinism, 3, 14

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

Dante, 135, 138

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

Eliot, George, 10, 23, 54, 73

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, Jane, 71, 90, 93

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

Homer, 135, 138; Iliad, 105

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

Milton, John, 135, 138

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

Rousseau, 130, 131, 135

Royal Shakespeare Company, 3

Rugby, 20

Ruskin, John, 72

Sand, George, 129, 130, 131

Scott, Sir Walter, 90, 131

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

Trollope, Anthony, 10, 23, 73

Voltaire, 126

von Ense, Rahel, 123, 124

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