Index

Achilles Tatius
- Leucippe and Clitophon
Aikin, John
- “Sir Bertrand”
Aleman, Mateo
- Guzmán de Alfarache
Alkon, Paul
allegory
Althusser, Louis
American Revolution
analepsis. See also flashback
anti‐Jacobin novel
Apuleius
- The Golden Ass
aristocracy
Aristotle
Armstrong, Nancy
Austen, Jane
- biography
- Emma
- free indirect discourse
- ideology
- Juvenilia
- Mansfield Park
- Northanger Abbey
- Persuasion
- posthumous fame
- Pride and Prejudice
- response to Scott’s Waverley
- Sanditon
- selected further reading
- Sense and Sensibility
authorial audience (Rabinowitz)
autobiography
- naïve incoherent autobiography
autodiegesis (Genette)

Baker, Ernest
- History of the English Novel
Bakhtin, Mikhail M.
Ballaster, Rosalind
Balzac, Honoré de
- Les Chouans
Banfield, Ann
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Aikin
Barrett, Eaton Stannard
Barrow, Isaac
- Sermons
Barthes, Roland
Behn, Aphra
- biography
- The Fair Jilt
- The Forc’d Marriage
- Love‐Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister
- Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
- The Rover
- selected further reading
Bender, John
Bentham, Jeremy
Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Decameron
booksellers
- as mediators of literary production
Booth, Wayne C.
Boswell, James
- The Life of Samuel Johnson
Bronte, Charlotte
- Jane Eyre
Bronte, Emily
- Wuthering Heights
Brooke, Henry
- The Fool of Quality
Brown, Homer Obed
Brunton, Mary
Budgen, Martha
Bunyan, John
- Pilgrim’s Progress
Burke, Edmund
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
Burney, Frances
- biography
- Camilla
- Cecilia
- Evelina
- posthumous reputation
- selected further reading
- The Wanderer
- The Witlings
Burns, Robert
Butler, Marilyn
Butler, Samuel
- Erewhon
Byron, George Gordon, Lord

Caleb Williams
- alternative denouements
- ancestor of the “thriller”
- back story
- mise en abîme
- names of characters
- as political novel
- preface
- and print culture
- surveillance and scopophilia
- theme of imprisonment
Calvino, Italo
Camus, Albert
- The Fall
capitalism
Capote, Truman
- In Cold Blood
Carlyle, Thomas
- Chartism
Carter, Asa Earl
- The Education of Little Tree
Causality
- predisposing vs. precipitating causes
Cervantes, Miguel de
- Don Quixote
character narration
Chariton
- Chaereas and Callirhoe
Charlton, Mary
Chatterton, Thomas
Chaucer, Geoffrey
- Canterbury Tales
chroniques scandaleuses
Clarissa
- epistolary irony
- initial situation
- tragic structure
- voyage
Cohn, Dorrit
coincidence
- in Austen
- in Behn
- in Defoe
- in Fielding
- in Godwin
- in Sterne
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
colonialism
complication (element of plot)
Congreve, William
- Incognita
- The Way of the World
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
- The Last of the Mohicans
Corman, Brian
Crane, R.S.
Cromwell, Oliver
Croskery, Margaret

d’Israeli, Isaac
- Vaurien
D’Urfé, Honoré
- L’Astrée
Dannenberg, Hilary
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Lennard
Day, Thomas
- Sandford and Merton
Defoe, Daniel
- biography
- Colonel Jacque
- Journal of the Plague Year
- miscellaneous works
- Moll Flanders
- narrative masks
- Robert Drury’s Journal
- Robinson Crusoe
- Roxana
- selected further reading
Deloney, Thomas
- Thomas of Reading
Descartes, René
dialectic
Dickens, Charles
- David Copperfield
- Great Expectations
- Nicholas Nickleby
- A Tale of Two Cities
Doody, Margaret
Dryden, John
- The Indian‐Queen

Eco, Umberto
Edgeworth, Maria
- Belinda
- Castle Rackrent
Eliot, George
Emma
- as bildungsroman
- as Cinderella story
- class and caste
- coincidence in
- as “condition of England” novel
- denouement
- Donwell Abbey as microcosm of England
- mystery and irony
- as punitive comedy
England 1688–1815
English Civil War
Etherege, George
- The Man of Mode
Evelina
- back story
- comedy of embarrassment
- comedy of fulfillment
- and woman’s place
expectations and desires
exposition

fabula
Fantomina
- ambiguity of consent
- denouement
- ethical complexity
- focalization
- free indirect discourse in
- performative desire in
- plot
Faulkner, William
- The Sound and the Fury
Feather, Peter
Ferris, Ina
Fiction and truth
Fielding, Henry
- Amelia
- as barrister and judge
- biography
- as dramatist;
- impact of Richardson on
- Jonathan Wild
- Joseph Andrews
- selected further reading
- Shamela
- Tom Jones
Fielding, Sarah
- The Adventures of David Simple
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- The Great Gatsby
flashback (analepsis)
focalization. See also voice
- in Caleb Williams
- in Fantomina
- in The Mysteries of Udolpho
- in Tom Jones
Foucault, Michel
- The Order of Things
free indirect discourse
- in Austen
- in Burney
- in Haywood
French Revolution

Gallagher, Catherine
Garside, Peter
Gay, John
- The Beggar’s Opera
Genette, Gérard
Gibbon, Edward
- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Glorious Revolution
Godwin, William
- biography
- Caleb Williams
- Enquiry Concerning Political Justice
- Fleetwood
- ideology
- selected further reading
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Werther
Gothic novel
- and medievalism
- origin and development
- and reader response
Grandisonian hero
Greene, Robert
- Pandosto: The Triumph of Time

Haggerty, George
Hardy, Thomas
- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Haywood, Eliza
- Anti‐Pamela
- Betsy Thoughtless
- Fantomina
- Love in Excess
- selected further reading
Hazlitt, William
Hemingway, Ernest
- “The Killers”
- The Sun Also Rises
heterodiegesis (Genette)
historical novel
Holcroft, Thomas
- Anna St. Ives
homodiegesis (Genette)
Howells, Coral Ann
Hume, David
- Treatise of Human Nature
Hunter, J. Paul

ideal narrative audience (Rabinowitz)
ideology
- as false consciousness
implied author (Booth)
- in Tom Jones
implied reader. See also narratee, authorial audience
Inchbald, Elizabeth
- A Simple Story
individualism
instability (element of plot)
Ishiguro, Kazuo
- The Remains of the Day

launch (Phelan)
- Mysteries of Udolpho;
- Oroonoko
- Pamela
- Tom Jones
- Waverley
Leavis, F.R.
Lee, Sophia
- The Recess
Leland, Thomas
- Longsword, Earl of Salisbury
Lennox, Charlotte
- The Female Quixote
Lewis, Matthew
- The Monk
- Tales of Wonder
literacy statistics
Locke, John
Lodge, Thomas
- Rosalynde
Longus
- Daphnis and Chloe
Lukàcs, Georg
Lyly, John
- Euphues

Mackenzie, Henry
- The Man of Feeling
Macpherson, James
Malory, Thomas
- Morte d’Arthur
Mantel, Hilary
- Wolf Hall
Marivaux, Pierre
Marx, Karl
Marxism
masculinity
- history
- in Sir Charles Grandison
Maturin, Charles Robert
- Melmoth the Wanderer
McEwan, Ian
- Atonement
McInerny, Jay
- Bright Lights, Big City
McKeon, Michael
- The Origins of the English Novel
Menippean satire
middle classes
Minerva Press
Mitchell, David
- Cloud Atlas
Moll Flanders
- anachronisms
- authorial plane
- chronotope
- claims of factuality
- Defoe as “editor”
- episodic voyage
- as false true story
- foreshadowing
- incoherence
- initiation
- narrative texture
- psychological realism
- questions of irony
- retrospective narration
- signs of authorial presence
- theme of rebirth
Monk, Leland
Montagu, Elizabeth
Morris, Edmund
- Dutch
Morrison, Toni
- Beloved
Mullan, John
Murray, John
The Mysteries of Udolpho
- and the French Revolution
- launch
- development section
- explained supernatural in
- ideology
- texture and atmosphere

narratee (Prince)
narrative(s)
- audience (Rabinowitz)
- discourse
- levels
- and modern episteme
- nested
- order
- theory
narrator
- in Burney
- as character
  - in Tom Jones
- in Joseph Andrews
- in Oroonoko;
- second‐person narrator
- unreliable
Nashe, Thomas
- The Unfortunate Traveler
Newgate Calendar
Norton, Rictor
Novel
- influence on society
- prehistory
- theories about origin
novel of sentiment

omniscience (narrational privilege)
Oroonoko
- bisexual tigers
- claims of factuality
- contradictions
- digressions
- and Don Carlos
- as historical allegory
- historical figures in
- launch
- narrator
- numb‐eel
- plot
- theme of self‐mutilation
- theme of slavery
- theme of truth/deception
- as travel literature
Orwell, George
- Animal Farm

pacing
Paine, Thomas
- The Rights of Man
Pamela
- anticlimactic structure
- arrival
- claims of factuality in
- as cognitive structure
- dramatic narrative
- editorial revisions
- influence on later novels
- launch
- as media event
- parodies and revisions
- responses
- voyage
- writing “to the moment”
pattern (element of story)
Paulson, Ronald
Percy, Thomas
- Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
Petronius
- Satyricon
Phelan, James
Phillips, Mark Salber
picaresque
Plato, Republic
Poe, Edgar Allan
- “A Cask of Amontillado”
point of view
Pope, Alexander
- The Dunciad
possible world theory
presentism
Price, Richard
- “A Discourse on the Love of Our Country”
Prince, Gerald
privilege (feature of narrative discourse)
prolepsis (narrative anticipation)
Protestantism
Proust, Marcel
- In Search of Lost Time
psychonarration (Cohn)
Pynchon, Thomas
- Mason and Dixon

Rabelais, François
- Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabinowitz, Peter
Radcliffe, Ann
- biography
- The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne;
- Gaston de Blondeville
- The Italian
- The Mysteries of Udolpho
- The Romance of the Forest
- selected further reading
- A Sicilian Romance
Rader, Ralph
reading public
- circulating libraries
realism
Reeve, Clara
- The Old English Baron
responsibility (as element of story)
Richardson, Samuel
- biography
- Clarissa
- Familiar Letters
- Pamela
- Pamela in Her Exalted Condition
- selected further reading
- Sir Charles Grandison
Richetti, John
Robbe‐Grillet, Alain
Robertson, William
romance (genre)
Roth, Philip
- The Plot against America
Rothstein, Eric
Rousseau, Jean‐Jacques
- Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse
Rushdie, Salman
- Midnight’s Children
Ryan, Marie‐Laure

Sade, Marquis de
Sancho, Ignatius
Scott, Sarah
- The History of George Ellison
Scott, Walter
- biography
- historical romance
- historical skepticism
- The Lady of the Lake
- The Lay of the Last Minstrel
- Marmion
- The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
- political ideology
- selected further reading
- stadial historiography
- Waverley
Scottish Enlightenment
Scudéry, Madeleine de
- Artamène
- Clélie
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
- Between Men
sentimental novel
Shakespeare, William
Shanafelt, Carrie
Shelley, Mary Godwin
- Frankenstein
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Sheridan, Frances
- History of Miss Sidney Biddulph
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Shklovsky, Viktor
Sidney, Philip
- “Apology for Poetry”
- Arcadia
sjuzet
Smith, Charlotte
Smith, Zadie
- White Teeth
Smollett, Tobias
Sterne, Laurence
- biography
- selected further reading
- A Sentimental Journey
- Tristram Shandy
Story and discourse
Swift, Jonathan
- Gulliver’s Travels
- A Tale of a Tub

Talfourd, Thomas Noon
Thackeray, William Makepeace
- Henry Esmond
- Vanity Fair
Thrale, Hester Lynch
Tolstoy, Leo
- War and Peace
Tom Jones
- coincidence in
- complex characters in
- denouement
- expectations
- focalization in
- historical figures in
- launch
- mystery and irony
- narrative ethics
- narrative technique
- narrator as character
- pattern in
- plotting
- Providence vs. Fortune
Tristram Shandy
- as anti‐novel
- bawdy asterisks
- closure
- hobbyhorses
- incoherence of
- irony against the reader
- and novelistic conventions
- and print culture
- as roman fleuve;
- satire on learning
- sentimentality
- story of the struggle to get the story told
- thematic content
- theme of time
Trollope, Anthony
Trumbach, Randolph

Walker, George
- The Vagabond
Walpole, Horace
- The Castle of Otranto
Warner, William Beatty
Waterloo, Battle of
Watt, Ian
- The Rise of the Novel
Waverley
- as bildungsroman
- gendered reading
- genre
- as Gothic romance
- historical nostalgia
- launch
- masculine reading
- mediocrity of hero
- narrative voice
- as romantic comedy
White, T.H.
- The Once and Future King
Wilmot, John, Earl of Rochester
Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Maria or the Wrongs of Woman;
- “A Vindication of the Rights of Men”
- Vindication of the Rights of Women
Woolf, Virginian
- To the Lighthouse
Wordsworth, William
Wroth, Mary
- The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania